mick silver
7th January 2013, 12:49 PM
James Jaeger on Gun Control, Nikola Tesla and the Inevitability of the Internet Reformation
With Anthony Wile
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James Jaeger
The Daily Bell is pleased to present this exclusive interview with James Jaeger (http://www.thedailybell.com/floatWindow.cfm?id=2059).
Introduction: James Jaeger is an award-winning filmmaker who co-founded Matrix Productions, which has partnered with Cornerstone Entertainment to produce a series of political documentaries. One of the first was "Fiat Empire" about the Federal Reserve System (http://www.thedailybell.com/floatWindow.cfm?id=1855), featuring Congressman Ron Paul (http://www.thedailybell.com/floatWindow.cfm?id=859), which garnered a Telly Award and went viral as the #1 film on the Internet for six months. Matrix Productions continues to develop, produce and market motion pictures. Currently in production is "Molon Labe."
Daily Bell: Last time we spoke to you about your film, "SPOiLER." We may repeat some questions but please bear with us. Tell us what it was about and how it was received.
James Jaeger: "SPOiLER – How a Third Political Party Could Win" was a little bit of a disappointment in that no third political party DID win. So here we are, right back in the "DemoPublican" soup, as Nelson Hultberg (http://www.thedailybell.com/floatWindow.cfm?id=2025), inspiration for "SPOiLER," might say. Nevertheless, we anticipated this would happen so we stuffed the movie full of incredible interviews that are valid no matter who's in the White House. In short, "SPOiLER" explores the political, economic and philosophical ethos of the past 98 years for insights into the debt-driven, welfare-warfare state and ways Americans can get back to a constitutional republic. Pat Buchanan (http://www.thedailybell.com/floatWindow.cfm?id=2938), Edwin Vieira (http://www.thedailybell.com/floatWindow.cfm?id=2050) Jr., G. Edward Griffin (http://www.thedailybell.com/floatWindow.cfm?id=2101), Pastor Chuck Baldwin, Peter Lillback, Jack Rooney and others do an excellent job making the case.
Daily Bell: Back up and give readers a sense of your history and how you came to be a freedom-oriented filmmaker.
James Jaeger: I grew up near Valley Forge Park on the Mainline, 20 miles east of Philadelphia, the birthplace of our nation. Living in the environment of the Founders, there is an ever-present memory of the sacrifices they made to get this nation started. I also have some of this memory in my DNA, as I am an eighth-generation American and members of my early family served in the first Continental Congress. One of my ancestors, Francis Lightfoot Lee of Virginia, was a signer of the Declaration and our co-producer, Henrietta M. Jaeger, is the current president of The National Society of Colonial Dames (17th Century Penn's Grant). It thus literally makes my blood boil when I see rogue politicians, usurpers and tyrants infiltrate our government and attempt to corrupt our Constitution with old world principles such as socialism (http://www.thedailybell.com/floatWindow.cfm?id=1901), Marxism (http://www.thedailybell.com/floatWindow.cfm?id=1900), fascist (http://www.thedailybell.com/floatWindow.cfm?id=1902) central planning, fiat currency (http://www.thedailybell.com/floatWindow.cfm?id=803), oligarchy and Keynesian (http://www.thedailybell.com/floatWindow.cfm?id=831) economics, that have never worked.
Daily Bell: How has your work been received generally of late? Can you still walk down the streets of Hollywood?
James Jaeger: You must be referring to my involvement with the Film Industry Reform Movement and my co-founding partner, entertainment-securities attorney, John W. Cones. Unfortunately, Hollywood still returns my calls. I say unfortunately because nothing seems to happen for decades even when they call. Of late I am bugging one of the top executives at Warner Bros to see the wisdom in placing her current Tesla project into turnaround and having a look at OUR current Tesla project, "TESLA - The Poet of Electricity."
Daily Bell: Are you sensing an upswing in attention? Are your movies making money?
James Jaeger: I don't make the political films to make money and any money they generate goes back into the production of new public service films. I make these films mainly to bug the s--t out of people that hate the Constitution. Interestingly, the stats for our little YouTube exhibition site at OriginalIntentDoc (https://www.youtube.com/user/OriginalIntentDoc) started out at about 20 screenings of our movies per day but are now over 15,000 screenings per day. Yes, these films ARE getting out, to the horror of some. People are tuning in to watch "SPOiLER," "Fiat Empire," "Original Intent," "Cultural Marxism" and "Corporate Fascism," all at that site for free. And some are even tuning in to watch a feature I made while working in Hollywood, "Snapshot Blues" starring Penthouse Pet, Monique Gabrielle.
Daily Bell: Remind our readers about Matrix.
James Jaeger: I was working with cinematographer-director, Lee Garmes and B. Jackson Mahon (Errol Flynn's producer and manager) when I was in Hollywood. Both of them inspired and helped me start Matrix Productions. The company D\B\A was filed as Matrix, one x, but my then-girlfriend talked me into using two x's, so Matrix productions became Matrixx Productions (http://www.thedailybell.com/floatWindow.cfm?id=2069). But since we don't produce porn it really makes no sense to have double x's. Maybe my ex-girlfriend was thinking of next trying to talk us into shooting porn. Who knows what's in the minds of some LA chicks? At any rate, we incorporated Matrixx Productions in 1990 as Matrixx Entertainment Corporation and we now have 52 stockholders that b--ch and moan whenever I screw up.
Daily Bell: Remind our readers about some of your other work including "Original Intent" and your breakthrough film, "Fiat Empire."
James Jaeger: In between features we often produce a number of smaller films. These films are often public service films to promote art shows (like "In Liquid"), new talents, musical bands, antique auctions, fundraisers and historical associations and events. You can see many of them at our Matrix Entertainment Short Documentaries channel at YouTube and your readers can follow our production assembly line on all the films at MatrixxProductions.net.
Daily Bell: Remind us of the costs involved of making political documentaries. This seems an ideal field for you.
James Jaeger: Documentaries are built in the editing room. As such they are mainly made of THOUGHT rather than MONEY. The simplest form of documentary is the "home movie." Many of us make them so we know they can be produced for as little as $5, virtually the cost of the video tape. On the other hand, the average Hollywood feature costs about $115 million today. This includes both the production and marketing budget. Filmmaker Michael Moore, the left-wing darling, spent $140,000 to make the anti-corporation "Roger and Me," $3 million to make the anti-Second Amendment movie, "Bowling for Columbine," $6 million to make the anti-Bush movie, "Fahrenheit 9/11," $9 million to make the pro-ObamaCare movie, "Sicko" and $20 million to make the anti-capitalism (http://www.thedailybell.com/floatWindow.cfm?id=1903) movie, "Capitalism: A Love Story." I only need between $20,000 and $95,000 to make my libertarian-conservative films. Since I can make these public service documentaries so inexpensively I often wonder why conservatives (http://www.thedailybell.com/floatWindow.cfm?id=1905) don't jump at the chance to get multiple films into simultaneous production. If it takes an average of $7 million for each one of Michael Moore's left-wing movies we can make 70 conservative-libertarian movies for every one Moore makes. That said, I am deeply grateful to the handful of conservatives and libertarians who have broken the mold and helped support my films. For such "concerned citizens" I have great respect. Thank you. As for the rest: They will get what's coming to them if we lose this battle.
Daily Bell: You called this the golden age of documentary films. Still feel that way?
James Jaeger: With the advent of the Non-Linear Editing system, the manipulation of vast quantities of film and video tape is now at the hands of any moron who can type or use a mouse. This brings out a lot of trash-documentaries and such documentaries are all over places like Netflix and Blockbuster. But on the vast Internet at large there constantly emerge works of such brilliance that mainstream media (http://www.thedailybell.com/floatWindow.cfm?id=1861) execs and globalists can only cower and run in horror. By the way, there is something MORE on the movie horizon. Not only does this continue to be the Golden Age of Documentaries, but the Golden Age of Video-on-Demand TV Series, as well. One has to but watch the "Breaking Bad" series, the British "Sherlock Holmes" series and/or the "Doctor Who" series to know what I am talking about. Video-on-demand over the Internet makes possible the CONTINUOUS AND UNINTERRUPTED, COMMERCIAL-FREE screening of a long-form TV series. "Breaking Bad" is 5 seasons of about 14 episodes each. To watch something like "Breaking Bad" under any other conditions is PURE, frustrating insanity. And those who have actually watched it know exactly what I mean.
Daily Bell: Give us an update on Hollywood, which just had a banner year. How's that possible?
James Jaeger: I just renewed my subscription to the Hollywood Reporter after a hiatus of about 25 years. In short, I have no idea what the freak Hollywood is up to these days, but after digesting Reporter and several other mags such as American Cinematographer, I will be back up to speed. One thing that's different in Hollywood is the studios have stopped reporting production-marketing budgets as of 2007. So that should tell us something. Maybe the studios – given the crappy fiat/Fed-infested economy we have been in in the past X decades – are getting ready to launder drug money to survive. Keeping the public in the dark as to budgets could serve this purpose nicely. Sony Pictures's execs have not only been producing "Breaking Bad" but possibly learning from its writers. But one thing that can be said about Hollywood: It has taught the rest of the world's industries how to "creative account." Now almost every major corporation operates no differently than the plot to Fatal Subtraction, the book about Art Buchwald v. Paramount Pictures.
Daily Bell: The Internet continues to make distribution progress against Hollywood. Explain how that's working.
James Jaeger: The movie addict can now get 1080p HD over the broadband Internet, just as the 1995 Matrixx Internet Distribution Business Plan approximated. This means the MPAA studio/distributors are no longer the only distribution hubs. Of course, they are trying to get their pet congressmen to pass all manner of anti-Internet "laws," such as SOPA, PIPA and CISPA, to regain control. If they ever DO get control of the Internet, the only thing free men and women will be able to do is deploy peer-to-peer, self-repairing, amorphous networks. This would be a totally independent network that would have no service charges or monthly fees. It would NOT depend on or run over the Internet, World Wide Web, Telnet, FTP, WAIS, microwaves, RF, satellite or ANY of the current – HIGHLY REGULATED AND GLOBAL GOVERNMENT-SUPPRESSED – networks in the world. (See the Kurzweil AI Forums (http://www.kurzweilai.net/forums/topic/free-peer-to-peer-phones-data-transmitters) for a complete description of the potential.)
Daily Bell: Where does the industry go from here? Where do you go from here?
James Jaeger: I think the movie industry is dead. The age of looking at shadows on a wall is over. The new entertainment age that's emerging is virtual reality, a "place" where one gets to not only LOOK at shadows but PLAY with them. Since the Lumiere brothers' projector popularized movies as mass entertainment around 1895 audiences have watched virtually every plot human beings can dream up in a given reality. James Cameron gave us a glimpse of the first movie that was believable and seamless 3D. My mentor, Lee Garmes, produced and directed the very first 3D movie ("Hannah Lee"), but that 3D didn't have computers and laser technology. Next are headset personal movie theaters and later the image will be painted directly onto the retina by lasers. Among these advances we will see photo-realistic actors, much better than the ones that first appeared in "Final Fantasy."
Note the studios have suppressed this technology as they suppressed the technology of large cheap plasma screens. Why? It will put them out of business. Anyone in the movie business with even one (1) technically-oriented brain cell knows that competition (people like me) will soon be able to completely animate feature motion pictures with any set, location, vehicle, prop, special effect OR star we want for very modest budgets. We have already started this process on our "Ecospheres" project. When my mentor shot the first movie to use mazda lights (the forerunner to incandescent lights) on the set, when he shot the first 70mm widescreen feature ("The Big Fisherman") and produced the first feature shot entirely on videotape ("Why?"), some called him crazy prior to each accomplishment. Before Lee passed away, I interviewed him on some of this. There's a link to the interview on my page about Lee at Mecfilms.com.
As for me, I would like to make some documentaries on subjects that are socially taboo. I have three such films in mind but they would probably have to be made in reasonable secrecy. This is not my normal way of doing things, as the donor-funding of my political documentaries depends on briefing everyone every step of the way. Yes, you can watch every step of the long, tedious progress of producing a documentary, like "Molon Labe," my current film on the Second Amendment (at www.molon.us). So the taboo films I would like to make would have to be co-funded by me, our company and maybe one or two other partners that agreed they should be made, and would make them with no fanfare. NO these films are NOT whistle-blowing films on any government activities or secrets, so any DHS (http://www.thedailybell.com/floatWindow.cfm?id=1935) agents reading this can go back to eating their donuts.
Daily Bell: These days the elites are having trouble with their wars and with influencing society generally, in our view, thanks to the Internet. Do you see this erosion of credibility affecting Hollywood?
James Jaeger: I have your editor's book, High Alert, and feel he's spot on with his analysis of the Internet Reformation (http://www.thedailybell.com/floatWindow.cfm?id=2195). In this book Anthony Wile (http://www.thedailybell.com/floatWindow.cfm?id=2012) explicates the impact of the new technology and compares it to the Gutenberg press (http://www.thedailybell.com/floatWindow.cfm?id=764). This press ushered in an Age of Enlightenment (http://www.thedailybell.com/floatWindow.cfm?id=28305). I would say when many brains can be networked together – by books or computers – you get a supercomputing entity. The power elite (http://www.thedailybell.com/floatWindow.cfm?id=610), with their wet-dreams of centralized, top-down control, hate the idea of distributed intelligence. But when you network millions or billions of people together with emails, discussion forums, websites, blogs, FTP servers and video-on-demand you get what is know in AI computer science as a "global brain." This global brain depends on distributed intelligence rather than one centralized supercomputer the power elite is probably trying to build in some billion-dollar garage or basement.
Since the Hollywood-based US motion picture industry – in conspiracy with the New York-based mainstream media – is always working to indoctrinate the public with anti-Constitutional themes, pro-gun regulation themes, anti-religion (http://www.thedailybell.com/floatWindow.cfm?id=854) themes, pro-gay/lesbian themes, anti-family themes, pro-Marxist (http://www.thedailybell.com/floatWindow.cfm?id=2508) themes, anti-free market themes, the Internet serves to counter all these agenda-driven themes. As John Cones points out in his many works, movies reflect their makers and since over 75 percent of the top executives at the studios are "politically liberal, not-very-religious, Jewish (http://www.thedailybell.com/floatWindow.cfm?id=722) males of European heritage," the movies that get green-lit reflect mainly this demographic's views on reality. And readers, PLEASE don't call me anti-Semitic for quoting John. I love Jews and feel they had a perfect right to establish the movie industry in Hollywood because Edison and his trust attorneys back East were a suppressive and greedy bunch. We are trying to tell part of this story in "TESLA - The Poet of Electricity" if anyone will listen to what I'm saying here.
Daily Bell: You keep forging ahead. Any times you have doubted or regretted your path?
James Jaeger: I'm sure if Hollywood studios had given me the budget ($500,000 to $10 million ) for even one of the 153 films I wrote, developed or optioned for them on spec, my attitude would be different. The fact is: I am no different than millions of other filmmakers and artists out there. The Copyright Cartel (as Max Keiser calls them) consisting of the movie and record studios scoop up all these artists and extort more than 98 percent of the cash flow in contracts of adhesion. It's so bad, agents have been demanding up-front fees or gross participation for their name talents equal to the sum of money they predict the studio will steal through cross-collateralization and/or creative accounting. So I don't regret my path because look at all the great material Hollywood provides for a filmmaker who's a black sheep in the tribe.
Daily Bell: Where is the freedom movement headed in America? Have you seen it evolve in the past year?
James Jaeger: Well, if you ask some – such as Jack and Margy Flynn – the freedom movement is headed nowhere. I am more optimistic. I feel all this global chaos and violence is good. When ORDER goes in, CHAOS blows off. All that's happening is the chaos and violence visited upon the World's People by the Globalists and their Power Elite is blowing off, meaning their centralized command world must crumble before the new metaphysical Age of Distributed Intelligence can blossom. This is in process now. People are talking with each other and realizing how infinite the universe is yet how f--ked they are. See my movie project that failed at Jaegerresearchinstitute.org/articles/globalization3. People these days are also discussing WHO is responsible and HOW to handle them. Those responsible are simple to identify. They are the people and entities that profit from war and weapons. The people and entities that profit from fiat currency. The people and entities that suppress art and beauty. They are the people and entities that abuse science and technology. They are the ones that abuse the biosphere. They are the people and entities that keep endless secrets and use governmental force to coerce and accomplish nefarious ends.
Daily Bell: Were you disappointed about what happened to Ron Paul?
James Jaeger: When we were making "SPOiLER" I tried as hard as I could to get him into the show. In a letter to me he said he wasn't going to run third-party and so did Jeff Deist (http://www.thedailybell.com/floatWindow.cfm?id=1185), his chief of staff. True to form, he kept his word. He didn't want to be in a movie about third parties, as that would tease his fans and constituents. Dr. Paul also knew that if he ran third-party he would have received much less media attention. Thus, to get his vision of a more libertarian-conservative world out, he had no choice but to hang with the idiots in the GOP (http://www.thedailybell.com/floatWindow.cfm?id=28313). Watch "SPOiLER" for more on that.
With Anthony Wile
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James Jaeger
The Daily Bell is pleased to present this exclusive interview with James Jaeger (http://www.thedailybell.com/floatWindow.cfm?id=2059).
Introduction: James Jaeger is an award-winning filmmaker who co-founded Matrix Productions, which has partnered with Cornerstone Entertainment to produce a series of political documentaries. One of the first was "Fiat Empire" about the Federal Reserve System (http://www.thedailybell.com/floatWindow.cfm?id=1855), featuring Congressman Ron Paul (http://www.thedailybell.com/floatWindow.cfm?id=859), which garnered a Telly Award and went viral as the #1 film on the Internet for six months. Matrix Productions continues to develop, produce and market motion pictures. Currently in production is "Molon Labe."
Daily Bell: Last time we spoke to you about your film, "SPOiLER." We may repeat some questions but please bear with us. Tell us what it was about and how it was received.
James Jaeger: "SPOiLER – How a Third Political Party Could Win" was a little bit of a disappointment in that no third political party DID win. So here we are, right back in the "DemoPublican" soup, as Nelson Hultberg (http://www.thedailybell.com/floatWindow.cfm?id=2025), inspiration for "SPOiLER," might say. Nevertheless, we anticipated this would happen so we stuffed the movie full of incredible interviews that are valid no matter who's in the White House. In short, "SPOiLER" explores the political, economic and philosophical ethos of the past 98 years for insights into the debt-driven, welfare-warfare state and ways Americans can get back to a constitutional republic. Pat Buchanan (http://www.thedailybell.com/floatWindow.cfm?id=2938), Edwin Vieira (http://www.thedailybell.com/floatWindow.cfm?id=2050) Jr., G. Edward Griffin (http://www.thedailybell.com/floatWindow.cfm?id=2101), Pastor Chuck Baldwin, Peter Lillback, Jack Rooney and others do an excellent job making the case.
Daily Bell: Back up and give readers a sense of your history and how you came to be a freedom-oriented filmmaker.
James Jaeger: I grew up near Valley Forge Park on the Mainline, 20 miles east of Philadelphia, the birthplace of our nation. Living in the environment of the Founders, there is an ever-present memory of the sacrifices they made to get this nation started. I also have some of this memory in my DNA, as I am an eighth-generation American and members of my early family served in the first Continental Congress. One of my ancestors, Francis Lightfoot Lee of Virginia, was a signer of the Declaration and our co-producer, Henrietta M. Jaeger, is the current president of The National Society of Colonial Dames (17th Century Penn's Grant). It thus literally makes my blood boil when I see rogue politicians, usurpers and tyrants infiltrate our government and attempt to corrupt our Constitution with old world principles such as socialism (http://www.thedailybell.com/floatWindow.cfm?id=1901), Marxism (http://www.thedailybell.com/floatWindow.cfm?id=1900), fascist (http://www.thedailybell.com/floatWindow.cfm?id=1902) central planning, fiat currency (http://www.thedailybell.com/floatWindow.cfm?id=803), oligarchy and Keynesian (http://www.thedailybell.com/floatWindow.cfm?id=831) economics, that have never worked.
Daily Bell: How has your work been received generally of late? Can you still walk down the streets of Hollywood?
James Jaeger: You must be referring to my involvement with the Film Industry Reform Movement and my co-founding partner, entertainment-securities attorney, John W. Cones. Unfortunately, Hollywood still returns my calls. I say unfortunately because nothing seems to happen for decades even when they call. Of late I am bugging one of the top executives at Warner Bros to see the wisdom in placing her current Tesla project into turnaround and having a look at OUR current Tesla project, "TESLA - The Poet of Electricity."
Daily Bell: Are you sensing an upswing in attention? Are your movies making money?
James Jaeger: I don't make the political films to make money and any money they generate goes back into the production of new public service films. I make these films mainly to bug the s--t out of people that hate the Constitution. Interestingly, the stats for our little YouTube exhibition site at OriginalIntentDoc (https://www.youtube.com/user/OriginalIntentDoc) started out at about 20 screenings of our movies per day but are now over 15,000 screenings per day. Yes, these films ARE getting out, to the horror of some. People are tuning in to watch "SPOiLER," "Fiat Empire," "Original Intent," "Cultural Marxism" and "Corporate Fascism," all at that site for free. And some are even tuning in to watch a feature I made while working in Hollywood, "Snapshot Blues" starring Penthouse Pet, Monique Gabrielle.
Daily Bell: Remind our readers about Matrix.
James Jaeger: I was working with cinematographer-director, Lee Garmes and B. Jackson Mahon (Errol Flynn's producer and manager) when I was in Hollywood. Both of them inspired and helped me start Matrix Productions. The company D\B\A was filed as Matrix, one x, but my then-girlfriend talked me into using two x's, so Matrix productions became Matrixx Productions (http://www.thedailybell.com/floatWindow.cfm?id=2069). But since we don't produce porn it really makes no sense to have double x's. Maybe my ex-girlfriend was thinking of next trying to talk us into shooting porn. Who knows what's in the minds of some LA chicks? At any rate, we incorporated Matrixx Productions in 1990 as Matrixx Entertainment Corporation and we now have 52 stockholders that b--ch and moan whenever I screw up.
Daily Bell: Remind our readers about some of your other work including "Original Intent" and your breakthrough film, "Fiat Empire."
James Jaeger: In between features we often produce a number of smaller films. These films are often public service films to promote art shows (like "In Liquid"), new talents, musical bands, antique auctions, fundraisers and historical associations and events. You can see many of them at our Matrix Entertainment Short Documentaries channel at YouTube and your readers can follow our production assembly line on all the films at MatrixxProductions.net.
Daily Bell: Remind us of the costs involved of making political documentaries. This seems an ideal field for you.
James Jaeger: Documentaries are built in the editing room. As such they are mainly made of THOUGHT rather than MONEY. The simplest form of documentary is the "home movie." Many of us make them so we know they can be produced for as little as $5, virtually the cost of the video tape. On the other hand, the average Hollywood feature costs about $115 million today. This includes both the production and marketing budget. Filmmaker Michael Moore, the left-wing darling, spent $140,000 to make the anti-corporation "Roger and Me," $3 million to make the anti-Second Amendment movie, "Bowling for Columbine," $6 million to make the anti-Bush movie, "Fahrenheit 9/11," $9 million to make the pro-ObamaCare movie, "Sicko" and $20 million to make the anti-capitalism (http://www.thedailybell.com/floatWindow.cfm?id=1903) movie, "Capitalism: A Love Story." I only need between $20,000 and $95,000 to make my libertarian-conservative films. Since I can make these public service documentaries so inexpensively I often wonder why conservatives (http://www.thedailybell.com/floatWindow.cfm?id=1905) don't jump at the chance to get multiple films into simultaneous production. If it takes an average of $7 million for each one of Michael Moore's left-wing movies we can make 70 conservative-libertarian movies for every one Moore makes. That said, I am deeply grateful to the handful of conservatives and libertarians who have broken the mold and helped support my films. For such "concerned citizens" I have great respect. Thank you. As for the rest: They will get what's coming to them if we lose this battle.
Daily Bell: You called this the golden age of documentary films. Still feel that way?
James Jaeger: With the advent of the Non-Linear Editing system, the manipulation of vast quantities of film and video tape is now at the hands of any moron who can type or use a mouse. This brings out a lot of trash-documentaries and such documentaries are all over places like Netflix and Blockbuster. But on the vast Internet at large there constantly emerge works of such brilliance that mainstream media (http://www.thedailybell.com/floatWindow.cfm?id=1861) execs and globalists can only cower and run in horror. By the way, there is something MORE on the movie horizon. Not only does this continue to be the Golden Age of Documentaries, but the Golden Age of Video-on-Demand TV Series, as well. One has to but watch the "Breaking Bad" series, the British "Sherlock Holmes" series and/or the "Doctor Who" series to know what I am talking about. Video-on-demand over the Internet makes possible the CONTINUOUS AND UNINTERRUPTED, COMMERCIAL-FREE screening of a long-form TV series. "Breaking Bad" is 5 seasons of about 14 episodes each. To watch something like "Breaking Bad" under any other conditions is PURE, frustrating insanity. And those who have actually watched it know exactly what I mean.
Daily Bell: Give us an update on Hollywood, which just had a banner year. How's that possible?
James Jaeger: I just renewed my subscription to the Hollywood Reporter after a hiatus of about 25 years. In short, I have no idea what the freak Hollywood is up to these days, but after digesting Reporter and several other mags such as American Cinematographer, I will be back up to speed. One thing that's different in Hollywood is the studios have stopped reporting production-marketing budgets as of 2007. So that should tell us something. Maybe the studios – given the crappy fiat/Fed-infested economy we have been in in the past X decades – are getting ready to launder drug money to survive. Keeping the public in the dark as to budgets could serve this purpose nicely. Sony Pictures's execs have not only been producing "Breaking Bad" but possibly learning from its writers. But one thing that can be said about Hollywood: It has taught the rest of the world's industries how to "creative account." Now almost every major corporation operates no differently than the plot to Fatal Subtraction, the book about Art Buchwald v. Paramount Pictures.
Daily Bell: The Internet continues to make distribution progress against Hollywood. Explain how that's working.
James Jaeger: The movie addict can now get 1080p HD over the broadband Internet, just as the 1995 Matrixx Internet Distribution Business Plan approximated. This means the MPAA studio/distributors are no longer the only distribution hubs. Of course, they are trying to get their pet congressmen to pass all manner of anti-Internet "laws," such as SOPA, PIPA and CISPA, to regain control. If they ever DO get control of the Internet, the only thing free men and women will be able to do is deploy peer-to-peer, self-repairing, amorphous networks. This would be a totally independent network that would have no service charges or monthly fees. It would NOT depend on or run over the Internet, World Wide Web, Telnet, FTP, WAIS, microwaves, RF, satellite or ANY of the current – HIGHLY REGULATED AND GLOBAL GOVERNMENT-SUPPRESSED – networks in the world. (See the Kurzweil AI Forums (http://www.kurzweilai.net/forums/topic/free-peer-to-peer-phones-data-transmitters) for a complete description of the potential.)
Daily Bell: Where does the industry go from here? Where do you go from here?
James Jaeger: I think the movie industry is dead. The age of looking at shadows on a wall is over. The new entertainment age that's emerging is virtual reality, a "place" where one gets to not only LOOK at shadows but PLAY with them. Since the Lumiere brothers' projector popularized movies as mass entertainment around 1895 audiences have watched virtually every plot human beings can dream up in a given reality. James Cameron gave us a glimpse of the first movie that was believable and seamless 3D. My mentor, Lee Garmes, produced and directed the very first 3D movie ("Hannah Lee"), but that 3D didn't have computers and laser technology. Next are headset personal movie theaters and later the image will be painted directly onto the retina by lasers. Among these advances we will see photo-realistic actors, much better than the ones that first appeared in "Final Fantasy."
Note the studios have suppressed this technology as they suppressed the technology of large cheap plasma screens. Why? It will put them out of business. Anyone in the movie business with even one (1) technically-oriented brain cell knows that competition (people like me) will soon be able to completely animate feature motion pictures with any set, location, vehicle, prop, special effect OR star we want for very modest budgets. We have already started this process on our "Ecospheres" project. When my mentor shot the first movie to use mazda lights (the forerunner to incandescent lights) on the set, when he shot the first 70mm widescreen feature ("The Big Fisherman") and produced the first feature shot entirely on videotape ("Why?"), some called him crazy prior to each accomplishment. Before Lee passed away, I interviewed him on some of this. There's a link to the interview on my page about Lee at Mecfilms.com.
As for me, I would like to make some documentaries on subjects that are socially taboo. I have three such films in mind but they would probably have to be made in reasonable secrecy. This is not my normal way of doing things, as the donor-funding of my political documentaries depends on briefing everyone every step of the way. Yes, you can watch every step of the long, tedious progress of producing a documentary, like "Molon Labe," my current film on the Second Amendment (at www.molon.us). So the taboo films I would like to make would have to be co-funded by me, our company and maybe one or two other partners that agreed they should be made, and would make them with no fanfare. NO these films are NOT whistle-blowing films on any government activities or secrets, so any DHS (http://www.thedailybell.com/floatWindow.cfm?id=1935) agents reading this can go back to eating their donuts.
Daily Bell: These days the elites are having trouble with their wars and with influencing society generally, in our view, thanks to the Internet. Do you see this erosion of credibility affecting Hollywood?
James Jaeger: I have your editor's book, High Alert, and feel he's spot on with his analysis of the Internet Reformation (http://www.thedailybell.com/floatWindow.cfm?id=2195). In this book Anthony Wile (http://www.thedailybell.com/floatWindow.cfm?id=2012) explicates the impact of the new technology and compares it to the Gutenberg press (http://www.thedailybell.com/floatWindow.cfm?id=764). This press ushered in an Age of Enlightenment (http://www.thedailybell.com/floatWindow.cfm?id=28305). I would say when many brains can be networked together – by books or computers – you get a supercomputing entity. The power elite (http://www.thedailybell.com/floatWindow.cfm?id=610), with their wet-dreams of centralized, top-down control, hate the idea of distributed intelligence. But when you network millions or billions of people together with emails, discussion forums, websites, blogs, FTP servers and video-on-demand you get what is know in AI computer science as a "global brain." This global brain depends on distributed intelligence rather than one centralized supercomputer the power elite is probably trying to build in some billion-dollar garage or basement.
Since the Hollywood-based US motion picture industry – in conspiracy with the New York-based mainstream media – is always working to indoctrinate the public with anti-Constitutional themes, pro-gun regulation themes, anti-religion (http://www.thedailybell.com/floatWindow.cfm?id=854) themes, pro-gay/lesbian themes, anti-family themes, pro-Marxist (http://www.thedailybell.com/floatWindow.cfm?id=2508) themes, anti-free market themes, the Internet serves to counter all these agenda-driven themes. As John Cones points out in his many works, movies reflect their makers and since over 75 percent of the top executives at the studios are "politically liberal, not-very-religious, Jewish (http://www.thedailybell.com/floatWindow.cfm?id=722) males of European heritage," the movies that get green-lit reflect mainly this demographic's views on reality. And readers, PLEASE don't call me anti-Semitic for quoting John. I love Jews and feel they had a perfect right to establish the movie industry in Hollywood because Edison and his trust attorneys back East were a suppressive and greedy bunch. We are trying to tell part of this story in "TESLA - The Poet of Electricity" if anyone will listen to what I'm saying here.
Daily Bell: You keep forging ahead. Any times you have doubted or regretted your path?
James Jaeger: I'm sure if Hollywood studios had given me the budget ($500,000 to $10 million ) for even one of the 153 films I wrote, developed or optioned for them on spec, my attitude would be different. The fact is: I am no different than millions of other filmmakers and artists out there. The Copyright Cartel (as Max Keiser calls them) consisting of the movie and record studios scoop up all these artists and extort more than 98 percent of the cash flow in contracts of adhesion. It's so bad, agents have been demanding up-front fees or gross participation for their name talents equal to the sum of money they predict the studio will steal through cross-collateralization and/or creative accounting. So I don't regret my path because look at all the great material Hollywood provides for a filmmaker who's a black sheep in the tribe.
Daily Bell: Where is the freedom movement headed in America? Have you seen it evolve in the past year?
James Jaeger: Well, if you ask some – such as Jack and Margy Flynn – the freedom movement is headed nowhere. I am more optimistic. I feel all this global chaos and violence is good. When ORDER goes in, CHAOS blows off. All that's happening is the chaos and violence visited upon the World's People by the Globalists and their Power Elite is blowing off, meaning their centralized command world must crumble before the new metaphysical Age of Distributed Intelligence can blossom. This is in process now. People are talking with each other and realizing how infinite the universe is yet how f--ked they are. See my movie project that failed at Jaegerresearchinstitute.org/articles/globalization3. People these days are also discussing WHO is responsible and HOW to handle them. Those responsible are simple to identify. They are the people and entities that profit from war and weapons. The people and entities that profit from fiat currency. The people and entities that suppress art and beauty. They are the people and entities that abuse science and technology. They are the ones that abuse the biosphere. They are the people and entities that keep endless secrets and use governmental force to coerce and accomplish nefarious ends.
Daily Bell: Were you disappointed about what happened to Ron Paul?
James Jaeger: When we were making "SPOiLER" I tried as hard as I could to get him into the show. In a letter to me he said he wasn't going to run third-party and so did Jeff Deist (http://www.thedailybell.com/floatWindow.cfm?id=1185), his chief of staff. True to form, he kept his word. He didn't want to be in a movie about third parties, as that would tease his fans and constituents. Dr. Paul also knew that if he ran third-party he would have received much less media attention. Thus, to get his vision of a more libertarian-conservative world out, he had no choice but to hang with the idiots in the GOP (http://www.thedailybell.com/floatWindow.cfm?id=28313). Watch "SPOiLER" for more on that.