In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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Almost the first thing you see after entering the Houdini exhibition at the Jewish Museum is a large-screen film of Harry Houdini hanging by his ankles upside-down from a tall building, high over a sea of men in fedoras, and thrashing his way out of a straitjacket.
There's always gonna be people with a lot of money making film, and the goal is to make profit and carry on. It is a business. The goal is to make a living doing it and to be comfortable.
When I was planning Family Viewing, the Ontario Film Development Corporation came into existence.
When I was a kid, there was no collaboration; it's you with a camera bossing your friends around. But as an adult, filmmaking is all about appreciating the talents of the people you surround yourself with and knowing you could never have made any of these films by yourself.
To make a film and to sell it to the distributors you need a name.
It's a new business for me to be a filmmaker.
The film business has changed so dramatically from when I started.
I reckon I closed down at least two films companies, one of which was in Ealing in the mid 1950s.
The Walt Disney Animation studio is the studio that Walt Disney started himself in 1923, and it's never stopped and never closed its doors and never stopped making animation, and it keeps going as kind of the heart and soul of the company.
I came to New York to be an actor and I became a film producer first.