this is cecil b. demille in hollywood, california. who? cecil b. mille, paramount director, speaking from hollywood. cecil b. demille! oh, yes! we want you to come to america for a picture. i want a fine emotional actress for the part i have in mind. you'll have to leave in one week. one week. oh, you americans. styles and techniques are being imported, appropriated and transformed to accommodate this system. (narrator) superficially, it seemed as if the major american studio was operating as factories, mass producing dreams for expanding foreign markets. (robert parrish) they were factories; they manufactured things. and if i'd been in detroit, i might have sold automobiles. but in this town, they made movies. and everything in the town was connected with the movies. it was a manufacturing system where they had parts that they could bring in and the parts were actors. they were on staff. they were there. you had script writers, you had directors. they were there. (richard brandt) and all you did was to put these together like automated manufacturin