Paramount Pictures was the second biggest Hollywood film studio of the period.
The company was notable for its business practices. It signed some of the biggest stars of the time, owned its own theaters, and was big enough to insist on demanding terms from other theaters that wanted to show its films.
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Opening War Theme
Rondo alla turca
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Closing War Theme
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Enjoy your podcast but won’t become a patron until you stop using metric measurements (I recently discovered you.) In an early podcast you said loudly “I am an American!”
America to Mark: we don’t use the metric system.
Yes, I am an American. I was also trained as an engineer, so I am fluent in metric.
I used to use US units only, but then I got complaints from listeners in other countries, who are about 40% of my audience. So I settled on a compromise. When I’m talking about other countries, I use metric. When I’m talking about Americans and American things, I use US units, with the caveat that I always use kilometers in military matters, because the US Army uses kilometers, and often other metric units. Interoperability is a thing.
When I judge the measurement sufficiently important, I give it in both systems, but I don’t like to do that too often, because I worry it would bog down the narrative.
I don’t get why using the British system of measurement would be regarded as an act of American patriotism. Didn’t we fight a revolution and overthrow them?