Lost Films

Author : Frank T. Thompson
Publisher : Carol Publishing Corporation
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : STANFORD:36105018350657

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Lost Films by Frank T. Thompson Pdf

In Lost Films, Frank Thompson examines twenty-seven classic movies made between 1911 and the end of the silent era, including such works of genius as Ernst Lubitsch's The Patriot, Raoul Walsh's The Conquerer, Victor Seastrom's Garbo vehicle The Divine Woman, and F.W. Murnau's Four Devils.

Author : Phil Hall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1593939388

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In Search of Lost Films by Phil Hall Pdf

It is one of the most astonishing facts of cinema history: an extraordinary number of important films are believed to be lost forever. Spanning from the early days of the silent movies to as late as the 1970s and touching all corners of the global film experience, groundbreaking works of significant historical and artistic importance are gone. Cinema icons including Orson Welles, Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock, Oscar Micheaux and Vincente Minnelli are among those impacted by this tragedy, and pioneering technological achievements in color cinematography, sound film technology, animation and widescreen projection are among the lost treasures. How could this happen? And is it possible to recover these missing gems? In this book, noted film critic and journalist Phil Hall details circumstances that resulted in these productions being erased from view. For anyone with a passion for the big screen, In Search of Lost Films provides an unforgettable consideration of a cultural tragedy.

Author : Max Booth (III),Lori Michelle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-21
Category : Horror films
ISBN : 1943720290

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Lost Films by Max Booth (III),Lori Michelle Pdf

Booth and Michelle (Lost Signals) deliver a collection of 19 technological horror shorts that are rich in imagination but woefully inconsistent in quality. Bookended by two bland head-scratchers, "Lather of Flies" by Brian Evenson and "The Fantastic Flying Eraser Heads" by David James Keaton, this anthology features all manner of descents into madness, horror, and mayhem, aided by the largely inhuman hand of technology. Entries include the intensely, weirdly atmospheric ("I Hate All That Is Mine" by Leigh Harlen) and the frustratingly, mind-bendingly experimental ("Daddy's in a Snuff Film" by Kelby Losack). John C. Foster's "Archibald Leech, The Many-Storied Man," Brian Asman's "A Festival of Fiends," and Eugenia M. Triantafyllou's "Ghost Mapping" are exceptional offerings that sacrifice neither storytelling nor style in realizing their thought-provoking concepts.

Author : Olivia Cosentino,Brian Price
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781683403395

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The Lost Cinema of Mexico by Olivia Cosentino,Brian Price Pdf

The Lost Cinema of Mexico is the first volume to challenge the dismissal of Mexican filmmaking during the 1960s through 1980s, an era long considered a low-budget departure from the artistic quality and international acclaim of the nation’s earlier Golden Age. This pivotal collection examines the critical implications of discovering, uncovering, and recovering forgotten or ignored films. This largely unexamined era of film reveals shifts in Mexican culture, economics, and societal norms as state-sponsored revolutionary nationalism faltered. During this time, movies were widely embraced by the public as a way to make sense of the rapidly changing realities and values connected to Mexico’s modernization. These essays shine a light on many genres that thrived in these decades: rock churros, campy luchador movies, countercultural superocheros, Black melodramas, family films, and Chili Westerns. Redefining a time usually seen as a cinematic “crisis,” this volume offers a new model of the film auteur shaped by productive tension between highbrow aesthetics, industry shortages, and national audiences. It also traces connections from these Mexican films to Latinx, Latin American, and Hollywood cinema at large. A volume in the series Reframing Media, Technology, and Culture in Latin/o America, edited by Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste and Juan Carlos Rodríguez Contributors: Brian Price | Carolyn Fornoff | David S. Dalton | Christopher B. Conway | Iván Eusebio Aguirre Darancou | Ignacio Sánchez Prado | Dolores Tierney | Dr. Olivia Cosentino Publication of this work made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Author : Ray Edmondson,Andrew Pike
Publisher : National Library Australia
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780642992512

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Australia's Lost Films by Ray Edmondson,Andrew Pike Pdf

Australia's Lost Films was published by the National Library of Australia to coincide with THE LAST FILM SEARCH, a project to find as many of these important films as possible and commit them to the care of the National Film and Sound Archive. But with its many photographs and a complete checklist of silent feature films 1896-1930, the book stands as an important record of a necessarily little known part of Australia's cinematic past.

Author : John Walsh
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781789091106

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Harryhausen: The Lost Movies by John Walsh Pdf

The official guide to the unrealised films of Ray Harryhausen. Known for his iconic stop-motion creatures, Ray Harryhausen was at the forefront of Hollywood special effects for much of the 20th century. His films include One Million Years B.C., Clash of the Titans and Jason and the Argonauts, among others. But for every film that reaches the big screen, half a dozen projects are never realised. Harryhausen: The Lost Movies explores Harryhausen's unrealised films, including unused ideas, projects he turned down and scenes that ended up on the cutting room floor. This book includes never-been-seen-before artwork, sketches, photos and test footage from the Harryhausen Foundation archives.

Author : Pauline Kael
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:803149753

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I Lost it at the Movies by Pauline Kael Pdf

Author : Robert K. Klepper
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2005-01-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476604848

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Silent Films, 1877Ð1996 by Robert K. Klepper Pdf

This film reference covers 646 silent motion pictures, starting with Eadweard Muybridge’s initial motion photography experiments in 1877 and even including The Taxi Dancer (1996). Among the genres included are classics, dramas, Westerns, light comedies, documentaries and even poorly produced early pornography. Masterpieces such as Joan the Woman (1916), Intolerance (1916) and Faust (1926) can be found, as well as rare titles that have not received critical attention since their original releases. Each entry provides the most complete credits possible, a full description, critical commentary, and an evaluation of the film’s unique place in motion picture history. Birth dates, death dates, and other facts are provided for the directors and players where available, with a selection of photographs of those individuals. The work is thoroughly indexed.

Author : John Howard Reid
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2008-06-26
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : 9781435710733

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Silent Films & Early Talkies on DVD: A Classic Movie Fan's Guide by John Howard Reid Pdf

A guide to 178 classic Hollywood movies from the 1920s and early 1930s, now available on DVD releases from both major and independent USA companies. These films feature both stars like Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Clara Bow, Lon Chaney, Louise Brooks, Charles Chaplin, Joan Crawford, Colleen Moore, Harold Lloyd, Gary Cooper, William Powell, Greta Garbo, Rudolph Valentino, Norma Shearer, Buster Keaton, Shirley Temple, Barbara Stanwyck, Ronald Colman, Lillian Gish, Marion Davies, and Wallace Beery, who are still top favorites with movie fans, as well as players like Laura La Plante, Charles Ray, Alice Terry, Pola Negri, Mary Miles Minter, Rod La Rocque, and Mabel Poulton who were also extraordinarily popular in their day. The book is illustrated with 105 well-chosen black-and-white photos from the author's private collection.

Author : Farran Smith Nehme
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781468310788

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Missing Reels by Farran Smith Nehme Pdf

New York in the late 1980s. Ceinwen Reilly has just moved from Yazoo City, Mississippi, and she’s never going back, minimum wage job (vintage store salesgirl) and shabby apartment (Avenue C walkup) be damned. Who cares about earthly matters when Ceinwen can spend her days and her nights at fading movie houses—and most of the time that’s left trying to look like Jean Harlow? One day, Ceinwen discovers that her downstairs neighbor may have—just possibly—starred in a forgotten silent film that hasn’t been seen for ages. So naturally, it’s time for a quest. She will track down the film, she will impress her neighbor, and she will become a part of movie history: the archivist as ingénue. As she embarks on her grand mission, Ceinwen meets a somewhat bumbling, very charming, 100% English math professor named Matthew, who is as rational as she is dreamy. Together, they will or will not discover the missing reels, will or will not fall in love, and will or will not encounter the obsessives that make up the New York silent film nut underworld. A novel as winning and energetic as the grand Hollywood films that inspired it, Missing Reels is an irresistible, alchemical mix of Nora Ephron and David Nicholls that will charm and delight.

Author : James L. Neibaur
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780810885301

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The Silent Films of Harry Langdon (1923-1928) by James L. Neibaur Pdf

Harry Langdon was a silent screen comedian unlike any other. Slower in pace, more studied in movement, and quirkier in nature, Langdon challenged the comic norm by offering comedies that were frequently edgy and often surreal. After a successful run of short comedies with Mack Sennett, Langdon became his own producer at First National Pictures, making such features as Tramp Tramp Tramp, The Strong Man, and Long Pants before becoming his own director for Three's a Crowd, The Chaser, and Heart Trouble. In The Silent Films of Harry Langdon (1923-1928), film historian James Neibaur examines Langdon's strange, fascinating work during the silent era, when he made landmark films that were often ahead of their time. Extensively reviewing the comedian's silent screen work film by film, Neibaur makes the case that Langdon should be accorded the same lofty status as his contemporaries: Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. With fascinating insights into the work of an under-appreciated artist, this book will be of interest to both fans and scholars of silent cinema.

Author : Gary Carey,Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Lost films
ISBN : UOM:39015003761619

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Lost Films by Gary Carey,Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) Pdf

Author : Harry Waldman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015050293300

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Missing Reels by Harry Waldman Pdf

During the first half of this century, motion pictures were often considered disposable once their circulations were over. The recycling of used film and the use of components for war efforts contributed to the loss of many movies, as did the unstable nature of the nitrate film itself. The loss of extant works has created gaps in the national cinematic history of the United States and most European countries. Eighty percent of all Western-made films produced before World War I are considered lost, while 15 percent of the films made from 1930 to 1950 are also missing. Here are descriptions of nearly 1,000 of the lost American and European films produced between 1900 and 1950, featuring the talents of the still famous as well as the now obscure. The films are arranged by country and reveal the remarkably prolific early filmmaking in countries like the Netherlands and Sweden. Each entry includes production information, cast, synopsis, history, and insights from reviews when available. Photographs from these films provide glimpses of what once was. An extensive index is included.

Author : Phillip Johnston
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781501366413

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Silent Films/Loud Music by Phillip Johnston Pdf

Silent Films/Loud Music discusses contemporary scores for silent film as a rich vehicle for experimentation in the relationship between music, image, and narrative. Johnston offers an overview of the early history of music for silent film paired with his own first-hand view of the craft of creating new original scores for historical silent films: a unique form crossing musical boundaries of classical, jazz, rock, electronic, and folk. As the first book completely devoted to the study of contemporary scores for silent film, it tells the story of the historical and creative evolution of this art form and features an extended discussion and analysis of some of the most creative works of contemporary silent film scoring. Johnston draws upon his own career in both contemporary film music (working with directors Paul Mazursky, Henry Bean, Philip Haas and Doris Dörrie, among others) and in creating new scores for silent films by Browning, Méliès, Kinugasa, Murnau & Reiniger. Through this book, Johnston presents a discussion of music for silent films that contradicts long-held assumptions about what silent film music is and must be, with thought-provoking implications for both historical and contemporary film music.

Author : David Pierce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Motion picture film
ISBN : UCSD:31822041202219

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The Survival of American Silent Feature Films, 1912-1929 by David Pierce Pdf

"Commissioned for and sponsored by the National Film Preservation Board."