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I wonder exactly what happens to the Oscars after the Civil War. Would the Academy of Motion Picture Sciences end up just getting folded into the national Academy of Arts and Sciences?

The post on the Canadian Crisis in the main thread does mention open borders between Canada and America even with the Cold War going on. With that in mind, maybe it wouldn't be entirely out of the question to see the occasional American taking taking a job in the Canadian film industry and vice...

Given how prolific the Turkish film industry was during OTL's Cold War, it would be interesting to see what would happen if a significant number of Westerns and Osterns are filmed there ITTL, and if that leads to significant collaboration between Turkish filmmakers and their Soviet and American...

Another possibility could be that the Barrow gang sees the Civil War as an opportunity to lay low/disappear and takes advantage of that. I wonder if Bonnie and Clyde would be as well known ITTL. It seems like the outbreak of the Civil War would butterfly a good deal of their activities in...

I agree Jurassic Park probably shouldn't be made more political. You probably don't even have to change that much about the novel to still fit it into TTL. I suggested the additional motive for Hammond to invite Grant and company to the island because it seems like it would naturally follow from...

The problem with using Hammond's creations to research dinosaurs is that they're not the genuine article. You would be researching the "genetically engineered theme park monsters" (as Dr. Grant called them in the third movie) rather than the actual animals that lived millions of years ago. I...

I've seen the term used pretty broadly (including Biblical films) and very narrowly (like it only referring to lower budget Italian productions like the Steve Reeves Hercules movies). Maybe if there are less Biblical films produced in America ITTL there might be an earlier cycle of Sword and...

I agree that he wouldn't fit in. I find the possibility of Milligan being among the American exiles to Cuba (a career military man like Milligan's father and his family following MacArthur to Cuba seems plausible) and how that might affect his films interesting. Perhaps they'd be even more...

I like it. The best idea I've had for an ITTL equivalent to Ed Wood in Cuba would be to have Andy Milligan end up there after the Civil War. Your idea is better though. Maybe Desi Arnaz? It seems possible that his family may not leave Cuba ITTL due to the different political situation.

I have nobody in mind, it just seems like he would be a good fit for a Bond villain ITTL, seeing how American Bond villains would be more common.

Makes sense that American characters would often be played by Canadians in FBU productions. I've had the idea of William Shatner playing a Bond villain ITTL.

Given The_Red_Star_Rising's post, I'm assuming the situation in French Guiana in 1942 is similar to after the fall of France in OTL. Given the French State supporting government in place as well as the fact that they have other fronts to worry about, the Brazilian Integralists may not feel the...

It seems like that would be difficult to pull off in French Guiana's case, with Brazil right to its south. Any sign that French Guiana might flip to the Allies could potentially lead to Brazil sending troops in to ensure that the French State aligned government stays in power.

On a similar note, it might be worth exploring how the UASR's formation ends up affecting race films and the people who worked on them. For example, I could see someone like Nina Mae McKinney finding more success in Hollywood compared to OTL.

Yeah, I agree that the British or French team filling the American team's OTL role in agreeing to participate is probably what ended up happening ITTL. If it did move, there would be the question of where to move it to. Barcelona got second in the vote total after Berlin, but if it moved to...

I remember reading that. It's interesting since the 1936 Olympics are one ITTL that I would argue could have seen significant divergence from OTL, since there was some debate over whether to move the games out of Germany after the Nazis took over as well as calls for a boycott. It doesn't seem...

I'm guessing the Olympics mostly go as OTL up to WW2. One interesting thing I've found looking into the history of the Olympics is how often Detroit was in contention to host the event from the 1940s to the 1970s. Seems like it would be a pretty interesting choice to host the Olympics ITTL.

I tend to think King of the Hill would actually end earlier than OTL. After all, season 10 was originally going to be its last, and that may well be the case ITTL, since it won't be a part of the Animation Domination programing bloc that was supported by the ratings of both The Simpsons and the...

Hence the "would want to" and "in the event of a successful invasion", given where much of Britain's forces are positioned when they enter the war.

I assumed it was an editorial.