Financing the Production and Distribution of Motion Pictures
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9749378 |
|---|---|
| Authors | A H Giannini (1President, Bowery and East River National Bank, New York City, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1926 |
| Volume | 128 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 46-49 |
| Publication date | 1926-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/000271622612800105 |
| OpenAlex | W2021686964 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
EVERY business man, who has given any attention within the past fifteen years to the development of American industry, must have observed how the moving picture business has progressively advanced to the front rank of our national activities. This forward march has exceeded that of many industries, and has been surpassed only by a very few. Because of persistent misrepresentations fifteen years ago, many persons were misled into the belief that the picture business would never be anything but a bad risk for the banker. From a very modest beginning it has grown in veritable leaps and bounds, and it has now assumed dimensions of an unbelievable size. It is estimated that one and one-half billion dollars are invested in this American enterprise. It has had its trials, and I sometimes think that the theory of periodicity, or the ups and downs in the tide of business, originated from observations made during the early and precarious life of the picture business. In those pioneer days, because of these exacerbations, we could find nothing on which to base a forecast of sensible change at any particular time in the near future. The sundry and scanty records, though then interesting, did not, however, disclose the general trend. The machinery equipment employed in the business, the kind of theatres in use, the poor stories, the inexperienced director, the calibre of the cast, the incompetent title-writer-all these factors were not calculated to awaken an intense interest in the public. The banker, of course, was not attracted to this business. It was about this time that I became
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,14 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2019 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
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