Cultural!AHC: Destroy Hollywood

Yeah, end the domination of Hollywood over the international (and American) film industry. The system that replaces it is up to you but I'd prefer it to not be them being censored to death by the government, mostly because they where willing to go along with pretty much any censorship as long as the money kept flowing.
 
Yeah, end the domination of Hollywood over the international (and American) film industry. The system that replaces it is up to you but I'd prefer it to not be them being censored to death by the government, mostly because they where willing to go along with pretty much any censorship as long as the money kept flowing.

Can it be more than one system? Because I'm not sure that one competitor such as Britain, France, Bollywood, or Nollywood (that's Nigeria FYI) can totally replace Hollywood. Any combo of the four could easily do so, however. Probably the best time for a challenger to Hollywood to rise would be the 1970s and early 80s when Hollywood studios were being bought and sold like mad (see Warner Communications) and when New Hollywood directors like Coppola and Cimino were unintentionally bringing studios close to or into bankruptcy. I thought about the Great Depression too, but plenty of theatergoers still saw Hollywood films then.
 
Can it be more than one system? Because I'm not sure that one competitor such as Britain, France, Bollywood, or Nollywood (that's Nigeria FYI) can totally replace Hollywood. Any combo of the four could easily do so, however. Probably the best time for a challenger to Hollywood to rise would be the 1970s and early 80s when Hollywood studios were being bought and sold like mad (see Warner Communications) and when New Hollywood directors like Coppola and Cimino were unintentionally bringing studios close to or into bankruptcy. I thought about the Great Depression too, but plenty of theatergoers still saw Hollywood films then.

Thats actually what I was thinking so yeah.
 
Funny story on the origins of Hollywood. Hollywood was a safe haven for filmmakers using imported technology to run away from thugs hired by Thomas Edison. Not sure why someone hasn't made a movie yet.

Pretty much, you filmed on rooftops in the northeast in the olden days. If you used illegally imported cameras (Edison had a bit of a monopoly), Edison's thugs would show up and push some people off the roofs.

They tried moving all sorts of places, most notably Arizona where people were shot by "cowboys" hired to kill illegal filmmakers.

LA offered to protect the filmmakers, and they settled there, and then made a monopoly of their own.

For a while after that, the monopoly continued. The studios owned all the theaters so they effectively made every penny a movie could make. They were allowed to continue the monopoly until after WW2 because they were making propaganda films.

So one of three ways.

1. Harsh patent laws regarding cameras and film equipment never go into effect.

2. LA does not protect film makers

3. The Hollywood monopoly is broken up almost immediately.

4. Most of the studios fail post-monopoly (IOTL, only one major studio failed.)

Those are your best shots to do it in, after that Hollywood becomes too powerful.
 
Hollywood also had the record number of sunny days in a year, which is a big plus.

Still, you could have a studio in hollywood, one in arizona, say, with an old fashioned one remaining in New York and spcializing in city / indoor shooting....
 

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1. Harsh patent laws regarding cameras and film equipment never go into effect.

Do that, and have filmmakers not call out fake fires all the damn time, and there'd probably be at least one studio still based out of Jacksonville (which would probably have done all the pirate/swashbuckling films.)

So if you didn't have the really harsh patent laws in place, or have Edison get completely wrecked in the current wars, or have Louis Le Prince not "mysteriously disappear" off a French train in 1890, and thus get his patent recognized in the US, I'd be willing to bet that you'd have 3-4 competing regional centers of cinema in the US, with Florida, New York City and the Southwest/Southern California being the big three.
 
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