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		<title>Phil Hall&#8217;s 25 Most Important Corporate-Sponsored Films</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:37:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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At Film Threat: Phil Hall has posted an excerpt from his book The History of Independent Cinema, listing the 25 most important corporate-sponsored films of all time.
Among those listed are:
The Yanks Are Coming (1918). &#34;The  Dayton-Wright Airplane Co. produced this feature-length film about its  de Haviland DH-4 aircraft, which was used by the U.S. Army Air Service  in World War I. &#8230; [A government agency later tried to have the film withdrawn from circulation,] marking the first time the federal government tried to  get a film banned.&#34;
 Goodbye, Mr. Germ (1940). &#34;The National  Tuberculosis Association produced this two-reeler that mixed animation  and actors in a fanciful tale of a doctor who cures a child [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Phill Hall on THE HISTORY OF INDEPENDENT CINEMA III</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 00:27:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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  Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Lil Dagover in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

Phil Hall Interview: Part I
Phil Hall Interview: Part II
What have been the top foreign influences on American independent filmmaking?
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and the European avant-garde films of the 1920s were a huge influence on U.S. underground filmmakers. The Italian neo-realism in the post-World War II era had a strong impact, primarily because it enabled filmmakers to adopt an obvious low-budget approach &#8212; with the caveat that the film was appropriately gritty enough to warrant the glamour-free style.
The 1962 Italian feature Mondo Cane helped to inaugurate the shockumentary filmmaking school that is still with us. More recently, the Dogme school of filmmaking had a flurry of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Phil Hall Interview II</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 00:26:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Mary Pickford, one of the first major independent producers, and screenwriter Frances Marion

Phil Hall Interview: Part I
The History of Independent Cinema. I&#8217;m assuming that refers to US-made films. Even so, that&#8217;s a lot of ground to cover. What sort of parameters did you have to use in order to condense that very long and very diverse history into one volume?
Clearly, I could not accommodate every independent film into the book.  I decided to focus primarily on films and creative artists that made a significant contribution to the commercial and/or artistic development of film production and distribution. That helped to eliminate many obscure films and filmmakers from coverage.
There are two genres that were not pursued in depth. I opted not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE HISTORY OF INDEPENDENT CINEMA: Q&amp;A with Phil Hall</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 00:25:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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&#34;Independent film is a vast and varied territory, and Phil  Hall&#8217;s remarkable book explores every inch of it with wit, intelligence, a  sympathetic spirit, and a wide-open mind. Fresh discoveries and surprising  revelations abound on every topic from Edison to Aronofsky, Anger to Warhol,  the silent era to the Internet age. It&#8217;s hard to imagine a study more keenly in  tune with one of cinema&#8217;s liveliest, most multifaceted fields.”  &#8212; David  Sterritt, Ph.D, chairman, National Society of Film Critics
The  &#34;remarkable book&#34; in question is called The History of Independent Cinema, which, as the title implies, covers the century-long development of American filmmaking outside the big-studio lots. Published by BearManor Media, The History [...]]]></description>
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