Chapter 25

Now, the top priority is to get the film through the review process and then find a distributor.

"I'll take care of it!"

Jenny volunteered.

Thus, the task was assigned to her, while the others waited with great anticipation for the film's release.

Although it was a student film, everyone, especially Catherine, hoped to create something that would captivate the audience.

The entire month of February, and even March, passed in a state of anticipation.

Catherine looked at herself in the mirror and sighed deeply.

The filming had temporarily concluded, and life had returned to normal, but Catherine felt that something subtle had changed in her body since that day.

For example, the two small hills she was now staring at.

It wasn't the mounds themselves, but the strange sensation that would surge up from her lower body whenever her companions touched them, enveloping Catherine.

It felt as if something was wriggling down there, making her legs weak and leaving her body unable to resist.

She suddenly realized that her body seemed overly sensitive.

She began to rub her legs, and the stimulating sensation started to spread throughout her body.

It was very stimulating down there.

"Am I a legendary pleasure device? Hehe..."

Catherine laughed at herself.

At that moment, the phone rang in the room, but she was the only one at home. Catherine wrapped herself in a bath towel and went to answer it.

"Kate! It's all done!"

Jenny's excited voice came from the other end.

"What?"

"The film has passed the review, but..."

"Go on."

As long as it passed the review.

"But many scenes were cut."

"What?!"

Catherine jumped up.

"You know, those Catholics."

The American film rating system began to take shape in 1968, but at the time, the thing that restricted film releases was something else—the Hays Code.

This was a set of moral guidelines for film production drafted by Catholic publisher Martin Quigley and Jesuit priest Daniel Lord, known as the Motion Picture Production Code (or Hays Code), which was established in 1930 and was widely criticized by filmmakers.

Controlled by Catholics, in 1957, after the French film "And God Created Woman" was released in New York State, a Catholic group in a certain region tried to use money to persuade a theater to cancel the screening of this "condemned" film. When their request was refused, they boycotted the theater for six months.

They even organized a protest, which Catherine had seen before, but she hadn't paid much attention to it at the time. Now, it had finally happened to her.

"Damn Christians."

Her father used to be Jewish, and her mother used to be Orthodox, but after they got married, they both became atheists.

"Fortunately, my grandfather managed to negotiate... Fortunately, they don't seem to care much about a B-movie."

A stroke of luck.

If it had been a big commercial film, the number of scenes that would have been cut would have been three or even five times as many.

"The distributor has been confirmed, it's Columbia Pictures. How about it, do you want them to distribute it?"

"Sure."

Columbia Pictures, which would later become Columbia Pictures, Columbia TriStar, is a famous American distributor.

Although she didn't know how Jenny had found them, it clearly indicated the potential success of their film.

"Kate, are you free next week?"

Jenny suddenly asked.

"Sure." Catherine replied.

"Great, Kate, it's my birthday next week, and I hope you can come."

"Sure."

Of course, she would go to her friend's birthday.

After hanging up the phone, Catherine began to think about the TV issue again.

Television had been popular in American households since the 1950s. Compared to the increasingly popular TV, movies were becoming more niche, and their audience was gradually diversifying. The collective experience of millions of people watching the same film at the same time was becoming a thing of the past. In 1948, the average weekly audience in the United States was still 80 million, but by the time the film rating system was implemented, this number had sharply dropped to 20 million. During this period, TV rapidly replaced movies as the favorite form of entertainment for American families in the 1950s and 1960s.

And now, it was the beginning of the TV era.

Integrated circuit TVs could be considered a revolution in color TVs. She was eager to release her integrated circuit TV.

Catherine had already thought it all through. The reason she chose TV game consoles instead of developing standalone consoles like the Wii, PS3, or Xbox 360 was simple.

—She wanted to dominate the TV market as well.

Strategic thinking and a broad perspective were not just empty words.

The difference between men and women, at least for the most part, could be seen here.

Although her gender had changed, her strategic thinking and the knowledge from her previous life remained unchanged.

In the 1960s, American technology was developing rapidly, and in the TV industry, this was manifested in the widespread adoption of color TV programs, which led to a significant expansion of the TV market, more than doubling it.

How could she capture such a large market?

The answer was simple—bundling strategy.

Game-TV was Catherine's trump card.

Bill Gates did the same thing, using the bundling and free strategy of his Internet Explorer browser to dominate the market. What Catherine was doing now was no different from what the future world's richest man would do.

It was 1961, the beginning of what Western economists called the "Golden Age" of American economic growth. The U.S. gross national product grew from $523.3 billion in 1961 to $1,063.4 billion in 1971.

After that, the Bretton Woods system would collapse, and the first oil crisis would occur. Then came China's reform and opening up and the second oil crisis...

Those events were still far away from Catherine, but the Golden Age of America had arrived. If she could seize this opportunity, she could rise rapidly.

The Hays Code would continue to be rampant for at least seven more years. Catherine knew that during these seven years, the box office of the films she directed would always fall short of her expectations unless she could make the code a thing of the past. But that was not something she could do now.

So Catherine began to urgently seek other ways out.

The TV strategy was one of them.

And why couldn't she produce TV shows? It was a booming time for TV.

"Right, if I start a TV company... what should I call it?"

Catherine thought for a moment.

"Hmm, let's call it Apple!"

She didn't know what the young Jobs would do in the future... who cared, what did it have to do with her?

...

The contract finally arrived, phew~

By the way, A-cup is too small, what will happen when I grow up?

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