Indeed, it was during this period that the very definition of an independent film became blurred. Though "Midnight Cowboy" was financed by United Artists, the company was certainly a studio. Likewise, Zoetrope was another "independent studio" which worked within the system to make a space for independent directors who needed funding. George Lucas would leave Zoetrope in 1971 to create his own independent studio, Lucasfilm, which would produce the blockbuster "Star Wars" and "Indiana Jones" franchises. In fact, the only two movies of the movement which can be described as uncompromisingly independent are "Easy Rider" at the beginning, and Peter Bogdanovich's "They All Laughed", at the end. Peter Bogdanovich bought back the rights from the studio to his 1980 film and paid for its distribution out of his own pocket, convinced that the picture was better than what the studio believed — he eventually went bankrupt because of this.