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« Reply #15 on: February 10, 2006, 01:05:57 PM » |
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Scottie Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I think we can take lesson from history to answer > this question. Let's go all the way back to 1920 > when Warner Brothers Studios was struggling to > make a profit. It wasn't making very good cartoons > as that wasn't where the real money laid, rather > the minor studio specialized in making the "b" > pictures of a double bill, and serials. It was in > the search of a new and profitable serial when > they stumbled upon a gold mine in the form of a > dog named Rin Tin Tin. Rin Tin Tin was so popular > and so successful that incarnations of the dog > have been reappearing in film and television even > today ever since its inception. I remember > watching a series called The Adventures of Rin Tin > Tin where Rin Tin Tin was a police dog owned by a > cop with a son who had his own school problems in > the early 1990's. In fact, there's a Rin Tin Tin > in training right now. Rin Tin Tin actually saved > the Warner Brothers studio from ruin when the > serial proved so profitable, they were able to > bankroll further feature length films and go on to > become the reason Vitaphone and the sound on disc > processes were to dominate the industry at the > beginning of the sound era. The Beethoven > franchise might in fact be saving Universal > Pictures in popularity of DVD sales.
That's a scary thought... Jaws and King Kong bowing to Beethoven.
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