LINKTV Democracy Now October 23, 2014
With additional funding from these foundations and individuals and by and the annual Financial Support of hello, im john lithgow. Welcome to american cinema. In 1946, hollywood didnt think a tv screen only inches in size could ever compete with a theatre screen 30 feet wide. Movies were king. Television was a novelty developed by radio industry. Barely 6,000 sets were in use across the entire country. By 1951, it was a new world and television was a part of it. Movie theatres were closing in waves, 55 in new york alone. To make matters worse, hollywood was coming apart. Antitrust action disman...