----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Alling"
Subject: Re: Film: And the Dead Shall Rise...


> Maybe not, but what makes you think that film couldn't be sustained by
small
> local producers.  Take a lesson from the Micro Brewery's.  The largest,
Boston
> Brewing Co. has grown to a size that it no longer qualifies as Micro but
they
> make at most 1% or 2% of the product produced by the major brewers.  Yet
> it's sold
> nationwide in the US and often sells for no more than a 50% premium over
> the usual
> swill.  Why should film be any different.  If the majors stop making it
> someone else
> will.

I can make beer in my basement, and in sufficient quantity and quality to
keep several families of drunks happy.
OTOH, I don't have a film coating plant down there.
There is a huge difference between making film and making beer.
Sorry, your comparison is a bit flat.

William Robb

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