Points to Consider Regarding Breaking Into the Movies
everything concerned with the movies. The first to be in the wrong were the producers. They built up an industry which, in its early days, was vitally dependent upon individual personalities.
A picture, according to their views, was made or unmade by a single star or director or writer, and very naturally they were loath to entrust the fate of a hundred thousand dollar investment to untried hands.
While on the one hand they realized the pressing need for new blood in their industry, they were, nevertheless, very wary of being the first to welcome the newcomer.
Producers preferred to pay twenty times the price to experienced professionals, no matter how mediocre their work might have been in the past, than to take a chance on a promising beginner. The business side of the movies, has, in the past, been nothing more nor less than
