Hollywood, 1913: In the dusty desert community of Los Angeles, a ragtag film company cranks out silent movies in defiance of the law.

Young Dmitri Pulski works for his father's ice company in the snowy Sierra Nevadas when he journeys south to investigate an astonishing order for ten tons of ice by something called the Rocky Mountain Moving Picture Association. Almost immediately, Dmitri, an aspiring writer, finds himself writing movie scenarios.

But things get skewed when The Rocky is threatened with foreclosure by the local sheriff -- they're grinding out their movies just outside the reach of the monopolistic eastern Trust, which claims exclusive right to make moving pictures under Thomas Edison's patent.

The Rocky Mountain Moving Picture Association is the story of the frontier's last boomtown, whose cast of "big guns" includes D. W. Griffith, Tom Mix, Lillian Gish, and unseen villain Thomas Edison.

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Title: Narc of the matinee.(conversation with Kirby Dick of Motion Picture Association of America)(Interview)
Author: Kerry Hawley
Publication: Reason (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 38 Issue: 7 Page: 13(1)

Article Type: Interview

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This digital document is an article from Video Age International, published by TV Trade Media, Inc. on February 1, 1995. The length of the article is 664 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: MPAA remedy for declining European biz. (Motion Picture Association of America)
Publication: Video Age International (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 1, 1995
Publisher: TV Trade Media, Inc.
Volume: v15 Issue: n2 Page: p1(2)

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