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- Title
"The Greatest Exploitation Special Ever": Destination Moon and Postwar Independent Distribution.
- Authors
SCHAUER, BRADLEY
- Abstract
Eagle-Lion,an independent film producer and distributor from 1946 to 1951, attempted to compete with the major Hollywood studios by releasing inexpensive films known as programmers that had a unique marketing angle. One of the most successful of these was Destination Moon (1950), which initiated the 1950s boom in science-fiction cinema. The film's semidocumentary mode was intended to broaden its appeal by differentiating it from more juvenile and fantastic examples of the genre. Despite Destination Moon's strong performance, Eagle-Lion was unable to achieve sustained success, due in part to the major studios' continued control of distribution and exhibition.
- Subjects
MOTION picture distribution; MOTION picture distributors; DESTINATION Moon (Film); MOTION pictures; INDEPENDENT films; 20TH century science fiction films; HISTORY; TWENTIETH century; MOTION picture history
- Publication
Film History, 2015, Vol 27, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0892-2160
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2979/filmhistory.27.1.1