Movie distribution may very well have migrated fully to digital form by then, making a huge dent in the need to print film and physically distribute content.
The combined results of several people working together is often much more effective than could be that of an individual scientist working alone.
Maybe the way we have learned to look has changed in the last 25 years, and the exotic is much more acceptable. There are many artists now, younger artists, who work out of the exotic.

