The Stolen Screen Part 3: (Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle)

How the Hollywood Mafia Framed and Destroyed a Keystone Giant to Consolidate Power Imagine an Ethnic American pioneer—a free White person of good moral character, as enshrined in the 1790 Naturalization Act—forging a homestead from untamed wilderness. He rises before dawn, clears forests with calloused hands, fends off threats from hostile forces, and builds a …

The Stolen Screen: Part 2 (Mack Sennett and Mabel Normand)

(Part 1 of “The Stolen Screen” is here ) The Keystone Architects In the rugged frontiers of America’s founding era, our Ethnic American forbearers—free White persons of good moral character, descendants of Europe’s hardy stock—conquered a savage wilderness with sheer grit and unbreakable resolve. They felled ancient forests, spanned roaring rivers, and erected sturdy homesteads …

The Stolen Screen: How Gangsters Hijacked Hollywood from Ethnic Americans

The Patent Theft and the Nickelodeon Takeover Picture this: a shadowy cabal of immigrant opportunists, fresh from the gritty streets of New York’s nickelodeon dens, plotting to seize an entire industry born from the genius of a true American inventor. Whispers of stolen patents echo through dimly lit backrooms, leading to a trail of scandals, …