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28th January 2013, 09:24 AM
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.
With Anthony Wile
http://www.thedailybell.com/images/feedbackicon2.jpg
46
http://www.thedailybell.com/images/library/James%20Jeager.jpg
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.