Foster Hirsch
American author
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Oct 25, 2026
Studio System, Stars, and Scandals: The 1950s with Foster Hirsch - The Interlocutor Podcast
16:17
16:46

Foster HirschGUEST
The most successful studio in the 50s and the studio that saved the industry was 20th Century Fox because Daryl Zanuck, who was the head of state at Fox, realized that in order for his business to survive, something new would have to be introduced, and he and his partners devised not devised, but bought Cinemascope.

Foster HirschGUEST
And they had a monopoly on Cinemascope, which is a huge widescreen process, not as wide as Cinerama, which was sort of unmanageable, but extremely wide.
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24:58
What stories Hollywood was willing to tell or maybe which ones they were afraid to tell.
Postwar Crime Procedurals: The System on Trial (with Foster Hirsch)
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Foster HirschGUEST
There are dozens of shots in that film that could be e- e- extracted from the film and shown in a photo show at a museum.

Foster HirschGUEST
In He Walked by Night, there are two visual streams that go into the making of that film.
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