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- Movies are a prime example of commercialized art
- It was a novelty and the first films were random clips of things like people walking or trains moving, and they had no story
- Film was a reason to overcome contempt for commercial culture
- Academia lagged behind in accepting film as a form of study
- Scholars didn’t consider films as an art form because it had no solitary artist creating one work all by himself
- The single creator mindset was from the classical era, and it was only legit art if it was written and directed by one person alone
- One critique of Hollywood was the films had no artistic unity
- Casablanca was one example and it had nine directors
- It was thought that too many directors would spoil the broth, so to speak
- Hollywood and art is unpredictable
- Some produce brilliant works when given free rein and no direction, others failed