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61) Souls for sale
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (91 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"The souls in question are silver-screen hopefuls in this witty, insightful glimpse at the early movie business. Feared lost for decades, it includes unique working cameos of director Erich von Stroheim and a non-Tramp Charlie Chaplin, and features starlet Eleanor Boardman, the 'Cinderella of Hollywood' whose rags-to-riches story echoed her character's. Escaping from a train journey with her sinister new husband, Mem Steddon (Boardman) crawls across...
Author
Publisher
Lyons Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
400 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
The year was 1896, the woman was Alice Guy-Blaché, and the film was The Cabbage Fairy. It was less than a minute long. Guy-Blaché, the first female director, made hundreds of movies during her career. Thousands of women with passion and commitment to storytelling followed in her footsteps. Working in all aspects of the movie industry, they collaborated with others to create memorable images on the screen. This book pays tribute to the spirit, ambition,...
Author
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Fourth edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
"Gain a comprehensive understanding of the business of global entertainment and learn to successfully engage in all aspects of global production with the revised and updated Producer's Business Handbook. Learn how to cultivate relationships with key industry players including your home and international territory studios, agencies, attorneys, talent, completion guarantors, banks, and private investors. This new fourth edition includes the latest opportunities...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (419 min.) : sound, color, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The American movie business started as peepshows and grew into a near-mythical art form that used an exciting new technology to create drama, laughter and adventure literally bigger than life. Here is the whole story -- the glamour and the sweat, the collaborations and the conflicts, the careers that skyrocketed and the dreams that crashed -- in the biggest production ever from Turner Classic Movies, the leading authority on classic movies and film...
Author
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xvii, 294 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Prior to the advent of the home movie camera and the ubiquitousness of the camera phone, there was the local film. This cultural phenomenon, produced across the country from the 1890s to the 1950s, gave ordinary people a chance to be on the silver screen without leaving their hometowns. Through these movies, residents could see themselves in the same theaters where they saw major Hollywood motion pictures. Traveling filmmakers plied their trade in...
Author
Publisher
McGraw Hill
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
"A clinical psychologist and writer/producer share secrets to overcoming presentation anxiety and crafting the perfect "award-winning" pitch-no matter what industry you work in! From impromptu elevator pitches to full-board presentations, sales and marketing professionals face an "audience" daily-often with make-or-break consequences. No matter what business you're in, you can up your game substantially by incorporating elements of a classic Hollywood...
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
Special edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Kevin Spacey stars as Buddy Ackerman, "the boss from hell" who reigns over an entry-level corporate job anyone would kill for. The ambitious Guy (Frank Whaley), Buddy's personal assistant, finds himself ducking everything from insults to paperweights as he tries to satisfy Buddy's needs. But when those "needs" involve Guy's girlfriend, he snaps. In a wicked twist of personnel payback, Guy takes Buddy as his "personal hostage" for a hilarious executive-suite...
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2016, 2009.
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (117 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in 1933, one of his first actions was to ban Jews from working in that country's film industry, praised as the most creative cinema in the world. Men and women who had made landmarks of movie history fled their homeland in the ensuing months and years. Many went to Hollywood. This compelling documentary traces the experiences of the exiles who took refuge in Hollywood, and examines their impact on both...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xiv, 231 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Although he was a visual stylist who once referred to actors as cattle, Alfred Hitchcock also had a remarkable talent for innovative and creative casting choices. The director launched the careers of several actors and completely changed the trajectory of others, many of whom created some of the most iconic screen performances in history. However, Hitchcock's ability to fit his leading men and women into just the right parts has been a largely overlooked...
Author
Publisher
Running Press, an imprint of Perseus Books LLC, aa subsidiary of Hachette Book Group, Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvii, 325 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"For well over a century, those who create motion pictures have touched our hearts and souls; they have transported and transformed our minds, intoxicated and entranced our senses. One artist's vision is the single most prominent force behind the scenes: the director. The Essential Directors illuminates the unseen forces behind some of the most notable screen triumphs from the aesthetic peak of silent cinema through the New Hollywood of the 1970s....
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
xi, 500 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
From the publisher. In Hollywood Left and Right, Steven J. Ross tells a story that has escaped public attention: the emergence of Hollywood as a vital center of political life and the important role that movie stars have played in shaping the course of American politics. Ever since the film industry relocated to Hollywood early in the twentieth century, it has had an outsized influence on American politics. Through compelling larger-than-life figures...
Series
Language
English
Description
Success Scandal Sex Tragedy Infamy, and that's just the first reel! Rules are made to be broken. And Robert Evans has broken them all. He was the first actor to ever run a major Hollywood studio. In a decade he took it from worst to first. Voted the world's most eligible bachelor, he was quintessential Hollywood royalty. In 1979, he had $11 million. With one mistake he spiraled south from legend to a leper. In 1989, his worth was $37. Did he come...
74) The player
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Language
English
Formats
Description
A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected, but which one?
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (approximately 910 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Commercial motion pictures were invented at the Edison Laboratory between 1888 and 1893. Perhaps none of the component parts were strictly new, but the ability of Edison and his staff to reorganize them for a specific purpose was an extraordinary cultural achievement. In 1894, Edison was the sole producer of motion pictures in the world. Many Edison films continue to be impressive as the company employed such accomplished early directors as John Collins...
77) American cinema
Publisher
Annenberg Media
Pub. Date
[1995]
Physical Desc
6 DVDs (542 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An epic analysis of the American motion picture industry that combines rare archival film, key scenes from immortal movies, interviews with leading filmmakers and commentary from noted film scholars and critics.
Author
Publisher
The University of Tennessee Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xiii, 226 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Amanda Thorp was a theater entrepreneur influential in bringing Black vaudeville and early movie theaters to Richmond, Virginia, and more widely to the southeastern US. Thorp, a White woman, opened theaters and nickelodeons exclusively for Black patrons during a period of entrenched segregation and outright opposition to Black patronage in the South. And though Thorp's mission was not expressly philanthropic, she nonetheless expanded access to early...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
12 DVDs (1,363 min.) : sound, black and white with some color sequences ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 books (128 pages : chiefly black and white photographs ; 31 cm)
Language
English
Description
Sunrise: A sophisticated urban woman seduces a farmer in the hopes that he will murder his neglected wife and join her in the city, but he soon finds himself rekindling his romance with the latter when she discovers their scheme.
City girl: A Chicago waitress falls in love with a Minnesota farmer, and decides to face a life in the country.
Lazybones: Steve Tuttle, the titular lazybones, takes on the responsibility of raising a fatherless girl, causing...
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