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Arts and Cinema
The arts and cinema of the United Kingdom of America comprise a large commercial film industry centred on Hollywood, a visual-art tradition running from the founding canvases to the abstraction of the mid twentieth century, and a commercial theatre centred on Broadway. In organisation they closely resemble their counterparts in our own history: privately financed, market-driven, and lightly regulated. What distinguishes them is their relationship to the Crown, which honours artists and patronises particular occasions without exercising ownership or editorial control.