Then they would definitely need to go register with the Federation Government, and the paperwork would be very complicated.
What Lance meant by that was actually very simple: without him, the Federal Film Commission would end up controlled by a bunch of opera people, who would then trash the industry.
Only by relying on Lance would they have a shot at getting this "officially recognized civil organization" nailed down before those assholes did.
The power of this kind of civil organization lies in its ability to regulate the behavior of an entire industry, and it can even carry a certain degree of enforcement authority!
So if they wanted to successfully preempt the registration, it wasn't as simple as just filing some papers; there were bound to be political connections and influence involved.
Film was indeed a rapidly developing industry, but right now it was still just a sapling.
