- Generalized Pattern is Regional Non-Competition
- Despite entrepreneurial, unregulated competition, showmen self-organize into regional territories (and even shift spatial patterns to avoid new competition)
- Collectively competing showmen establish a continental mass market
- Built upon established seasonal patterns from itinerant shows & amusements, but also built upon the political economic & public infrastructure of railway, newspaper, telegraph
- Creates the established zones for film exchange territories, 1907-1913
- Foreshadows the mutual non-compete zones of the “big three” vertically-integrated Hollywood producer-distributor-exhibitors (Paramount, Warner, Fox)