History of the Movies

This book covers 80 years of film making,the plots,background and the backstage stories of the early days. The Westerns,B Movies,The Quickies,the comedies,the musicals,the gangster pictures,the war pictures,Science fiction,Horror,detective,and the biggies. Illustrated with over 400 photos of the great and not so great films,this book will be a proud addition to the collection of every movie enthusiast,film historian or nostalgia fan.

First sentence: Previews of Coming Attractions: It emerged from Thomas A Edison's Menlo Park, New Jersey, laboratories in the 1890s, this marvel of lights and shadows we call the motion picture. One more entry in the catalogue of scientific and engineering achievements that had changed the world in the 19th century -the electric light, the telegraph, the telephone, the steamship and the steam locomotive - it was

Year

1983

Language

English

Publisher

Bison Books

Editions

3

Pages

256

ISBN

9780861241194

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