David Rosenthal: belief

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…Yeah, and the fascinating thing is, it's in part because they don't really want a pure financial partner for the park. They don't want to just go raise a bunch of debt that they'll then have to pay back. This has hamstrung them so many times. They're trying to think creatively of how can we do like a 1+1=5 thing here where we have this Disneyland Inc. Joint venture and someone else is, you know, building this thing and funding it. So yeah, at the time, the prevailing sentiment in Hollywood was that TV was a threat, that if Hollywood movie studios started putting their content on TV, it would steal audiences away from the theaters. It's just like in our NFL episode where baseball was deathly afraid of television. I think the quote was, "Radio whets the appetite for attending baseball games live, and TV satiates it. " Yes.…

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