Issue Details: First known date: 2015... 2015 American Combine : Australasian Films Ltd., and Block Bookings
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'The 1927–1928 Commonwealth Royal Commission on the Moving Picture Industry in Australia followed a series of public inquiries into the Australian cinema. One agenda of the Commission was to examine the dominance of American movies in Australian film exhibition. By concentrating on how the Commission explored this issue, as it related to the exhibition and distribution of Hollywood movies in Australia, here I will consider the extent to which Australian exhibition has been guided by and dependent on American movies. With the Commission established, in part, to explore the accusation of an American combine ruling the exhibition industry, and stunting the local production sector, the real question was whether the Commissioners would be persuaded to make recommendations to wrest the powers from America, and consequently redirect the local exhibition industry's dependence on Hollywood movies.' (Publication abstract)

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    y separately published work icon Studies in Australasian Cinema Re-evaluating the Royal Commission into the Australian Moving Picture Industry, 1927–28 vol. 9 no. 3 2015 9156791 2015 periodical issue 2015 pg. 241-252
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241-252 American Combine : Australasian Films Ltd., and Block Bookingssmall AustLit logo Studies in Australasian Cinema
Subjects:
  • Hollywood, Los Angeles, California,
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    United States of America (USA),
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    Americas,
  • 1927-1928
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