Saturday, November 14, 2009

Indie Film 1909

Nickelodeons were once as common as coffee shops, and the nickel-a-pop silent films they showed were as disposable as YouTube videos. That made for a lot of competition in the early days of the movie business — competition that fueled the rise of an indie-films culture as early as 1909.

Not that you'd know it from the history books.


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