Re: Vom Winde verweht / Parallelen

verfasst von JüKü, 24.01.2001, 22:32

Der folgende Teil gibt zu bedenken:

>Surely investors who put their money in this world-changing
>new technology were richly rewarded. Alas...what a
>confusing, frustrating...and astonishingly baroque world we
>live in. Sheehan reports that by 1933,"the entire motion
>picture industry had defaulted on its debt (there was one
>exception: Loews). The studios struggled to survive."
>What went wrong? The studios were trapped by technology as
>well as enriched by it. They were forced to invest huge
>amounts of money [[u]like today's telecoms or Internets?[/b]] in
>order to remain competitive."They had no choice," explains
>Sheehan."Profits of the industry tripled between 1927 and
>1929. They had achieved this apparent success, but at an
>enormous cost....The industrial system as it had evolved
>for the previous three decades needed to be completely
>overhauled; studios and theatres had to be totally re-
>equipped and creative personnel retrained or fired. In
>order to fund this conversion, the film companies were
>forced to borrow $350 million. What William Fox and Sam
>Warner did not anticipate was a stock market crash."


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