David Rosenthal: evaluation

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…Right, so they, they effectively have $2.2 million left over after paying the theater, paying the distributor, paying back the principal on the loan, and paying the interest. Okay, $2.2 million in 1937 is still a lot of money, but they wanna go build a gigantic campus. Yes, but Ben, of course Disney isn't just making $2.2 million in profits from Snow White. There's all that good, good flywheel revenue to come along with it. So, you know, if Walt thought that the flywheel worked well for Mickey Mouse, Snow White is like a whole other level. So before the film is even widely released around the country, they have their next major flywheel node, their next business model innovation already in market. The movie soundtrack. I couldn't believe this when I learned it. Snow White was the very first movie soundtrack ever created and sold to the public. It all started with Snow White. There were no sound movie soundtrack albums before then, and it is a huge hit both because, you know, it's a great soundtrack, but like before this album, there was never anything that audiences could take home actually of the picture that they saw in theaters. There's no home video, right? There's no streaming, there's no television. Right.…

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