早期的电影业目无法纪,毫无“游戏规则”,有如资本的原始积累一样血腥。卷入残酷竞争中的电影商们,无情地使用着富有独创性的发明家或规避他们的专利发明。因此,有人说,那时要想与电影商广泛打交道而又不致发生一些被欺骗的恐怖故事是不容易的。 先驱电影摄影师之一的弗雷德·J·鲍尔肖弗,在其撰著的《每周一盘胶片》中,描述了1905年他是如何在跟镜商西格蒙德·卢宾的商店加入电影这个行当并做了一个时期的并不光彩的活计的。 The early movie industry was unmanageable and had no “rules of the game,” just as bloody as the primitive accumulation of capital. Filmmakers involved in brutal competition ruthlessly use inventive inventors or circumvent their patented inventions. Therefore, some people say that it was not easy at that time to deal extensively with filmmakers without some of the horrified stories being deceived. Fred J. Powershoff, one of the pioneering cinematographers, in his book, Every Monday in Film, describes how he was in 1905 with the mirror’s Sigmund Lubin store Joined the movie business and did a period of unscrupulous live.