Movies from an Independent Confederacy

What sorts of movies might an independent CSA produce early in the era of film? Are they popular enough to create a rival to Hollywood, perhaps create a niche like Bollywood, or fail spectacularly altogether?
 
What sorts of movies might an independent CSA produce early in the era of film?

Birth of a Nation, Gone with the Wind (except it ends "happily" with the Old South "free" from Northern "opression"); basically all your "lost cause" type of films.
 
I dont think a CSA would last long enough to see the light of film technology. Even if they did, they probably wouldnt even comprehend it for being so backwards.
 
Birth of a Nation, Gone with the Wind (except it ends "happily" with the Old South "free" from Northern "opression"); basically all your "lost cause" type of films.

Birth Of A Nation is an interesting case, because it's actually pro-Union, or at least pro-Lincoln, suggesting that he was the protector of southern whites against the depredations of the(unnamed but certainly implied) Radical Republicans.

If I'm remembering it correctly, the overall message of the film is something like "Yeah, okay, the South shouldn't have tried to secede, but now that that's settled, the North needs to butt out of their affairs and let them deal with the colored race the way as they see fit". Even the very title of the film suggests that what needs to happen now is unity(albeit on terms very much favourable to the white South).

So, in a surviving CSA, Birth Of A Nation would be about the birth of the Confederate nation, with no weepy homages to Lincoln, and every Republican made out to be a Radical.
 
I doubt that CSA movie industry will be anywhere close of USA movie industry. The country is just too poor and backward creating such movie industry as Hollywood has.

And probably movies would be mostly pro-slavery/segregation propaganda movies. And surely there is equalement of Hays codes, perhaps even stricter if this is even possible.
 
The Help a film about how treacherous and lazy black people are, and must be kept in their place by white godly southern women.
 
The Help a film about how treacherous and lazy black people are, and must be kept in their place by white godly southern women.

It would be more like:

The Help: a film about how "naive and helpless" black people are and how they must be "helped" by "kind and benevolent" white southern women.
 
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It would be more like:

The Help: a film about how "naive and helpless" black people are and how they must be "helped" by "kind and benevolent" white southern women?
Think more loyal and dutiful, simple, but pure salt of the earth servants supporting the household of their paternalist masters when they need them the most.
 
Films in an independent CSA would most likely be tightly controlled for "Ideological Purity" and to enforce racial norms.
 
So... more or less the OTL film?
Eh, haven't seen it. Not really my speed.

Maybe instead of Westerns, they have Mountain films, transposing the struggle between '''''civilization''''' and savagery to the rough-and-tumble (and generally slaveless) Appalachians instead of the American West.
 
I dont think a CSA would last long enough to see the light of film technology. Even if they did, they probably wouldnt even comprehend it for being so backwards.

While I do doubt they would have a substantial movie industry its not like southerns were a bunch of inbred stereotypes. That is a pretty ignorant assumption.
 
I could see movies set in the "War Between the States" featuring the heroic leaders of an agrairian South resisting against the onslaught of a corrupt North.
 
Birth of a Nation: A historical drama following the exploits of a Southern man from his childhood during the Southron War of Independence, to the hardships of the Boll Weevil outbreak, the disastrous Southron-Spanish War where he and his brother take part in the disastrous attempted invasion of Cuba, which results in his brother's death, his disillusionment with the increasingly autocratic government and his involvement in the Southron Revolution.
 

Greenville

Banned
A movie about the villainous tyrant Lincoln who claimed he wasn't going to touch slavery only to lie and secretly plot with abolitionists to bring it to an end.
 
A slasher film called JOHN BROWN

The ghost of the infamous abolitionist psychopath haunts the suburbs of Northern Virginia, hacking to death white girls who the curse upon themselves by thinking lustfully about black men.

The opening credits, as per Carpetner's Halloween, feature children's voices singing John Brown's Body Lies A-Moldin' In The Grave.
 
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