This week on the Tinsel Factory, we’re discussing the 1918 Spanish Flu and its affects on the American motion picture business. We also discuss what we can learn from the Spanish Flu when dealing with COVID-19 and what the future of the film industry and movie exhibition might be. 

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Sources: Wikipedia https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/vsushistorical/mortstatsh_1918.pdf https://deadline.com/2020/04/hollywood-coronavirus-impact-spanish-flu-history-lessons-william-mann-interview-1202899630/ https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/how-1918-flu-halted-hollywood-1286640 https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/1918-pandemic-h1n1.html https://theconversation.com/hollywood-is-creating-a-void-like-the-one-that-permanently-stunted-european-film-after-spanish-flu-147591 https://www.marketplace.org/2020/11/19/how-the-spanish-flu-contributed-to-the-rise-of-hollywood/