Woolson, as a lawyer, worked closely with producers and made problems go away in Hollywood before he came to Oregon. He does pretty much the same thing here. It is economically important to film makers that a film can be shot as planned. Delays cost film makers money. 1946 was the biggest year in theatrical movie revenue.
Video games are a bigger business than theatrical films, which remain a relatively small business.
A typical film gets less than one quarter of its revenue from theater ticket sales in the U.S. Overseas, broadcast, cable, and video sales make up a large portion of the rest of the revenue. One-third of U.S. households have computers now, many with multimedia capability. The Internet World Wide Web content doubles every 35 days now. As bandwidth grows, we will get video production on-line. Oregon has competitive advantages in the film market.