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Remaking Films: The Early Years Of Re-Making Film
This article is all about the early days of remaking films, pointing out many different notions, with one of them being the fact that film remakes have been occurring ever since the beginning of filmmaking. The author also mentions that America is considered the biggest producers of remakes, while she points out that this has never been an exclusive model for American filmmakers and producers. The author next breaks down a bit of the history involved with remakes in early cinema, and eventually makes the point of saying that film remakes were important in setting genre distinctions and differences from other genres. An in-depth description of a dupe copy or a film that is incredibly similar is another point that the source talks about.

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