why is early French cinema unavailable to American audiences?

My thought is that American cinemas don't make the money on foreign films that they do on Hollywood productions. It's all about the money. Americans grow up on a steady diet of mostly dreck on television and in the theater. Many people don't even read anything beyond the latest, I don't know, what author is popular at the drugstore? While college could be a place to open up the mind to new ideas, that often doesn't happen. Students are focused only on their discipline, so they miss so much.

I am fortunate, blessed really, to have grown up in a home filled with a family who were lovers of every art form. Being the youngest, I reaped the benefit of my siblings' education as well as my own. I was steeped in classic literature, music, art, film, and every other genre I could imagine.

One problem today is the lack of art education in public schools. I am a child of the sixties and I remember learning the music "Peter and the Wolf," drawing and painting, and dancing, all in art class. We were introduced to the arts. That's important. I wonder how many children in public schools today have seen a foreign film, or a silent one? That would be a good project for a history class, I think. These films cannot be forgotten, and that means new audiences must be created.

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