Sodom and Gomorrah : the story of Hollywood (1935)

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pictures — at least not while \ main what they are in America. About the only immediate help which the Government can give us to break the system ki booking, which makes it impossible for theatre owners select their programs by choosing good pictures wherever they can find them. Breaking up that system will make it possible for independent producers to rind an outlet for their productions, and it is in the independently produced picture that our immediate hope of progress lies. I know something about this matter, for I have tried several times to make independent pictures or to get them made, and always 1 have found that the major companies with their monopoly of distribution are able to block the way. I have told in my book, "I Candidate for Governor, and How 1 Got Licked," what the motion picture industry did to defeat the hopes oi the people oi California in the 1934 election. During the four months which have elapsed since that election, I have been discussing plans to put the story oi that campaign into the forjn of a motion picture, so as to bring it to the people of the entire country ; and in this effort 1 have been acquiring more knowledge as to the power of the big studios to block the way of the independents. Four different groups of men have come fur ward, eager to make the picture 1 have suggested, and confident that it would prove a financial ind each time these men have learned upon inquiry that they