Thomas Ince

Author : Brian Taves
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780813134222

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Thomas Ince by Brian Taves Pdf

Ince turned movie-making into a business enterprise. Progressing from actor to director and screenwriter, he revolutionized the motion picture industry through developing the role of the producer. Taves chronicles Ince's life from the stage to his sudden death as he was about to join forces with media tycoon William Randolph Hearst. He explores Ince's impact on Hollywood's production system, the Western, his creation of the first American movies starring Asian performers, and his cinematic exploration of the status of women in society.

Author : Michelle Vogel
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786455263

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Olive Thomas by Michelle Vogel Pdf

Olive Thomas was one of Hollywood's first true movie stars. Born in Charleroi, Pennsylvania, in 1894, she moved to New York at age sixteen and began to pursue an acting career. By 1915, she had landed a job as one of Ziegfeld's famous "Follies" girls. Before long her beauty was discovered by Hollywood, where she quickly became one of the biggest names in motion pictures. Her marriage to film star Jack Pickford further enhanced her popularity. Olive's death by poison on September 10, 1920, created a media circus. This biography begins with Olive's birth, follows her trip to stardom, and covers in detail the circumstances surrounding her mysterious death at age 25. Rare and beautiful photographs and a complete filmography are included.

Author : Great Britain. Committee for compounding with delinquents (1643-1660)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : PRNC:32101044299459

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The Royalist Composition Papers: I-O by Great Britain. Committee for compounding with delinquents (1643-1660) Pdf

Author : Great Britain. Committee for Compounding with Delinquents, 1643-1660
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UIUC:30112085281522

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The Royalist Composition Papers by Great Britain. Committee for Compounding with Delinquents, 1643-1660 Pdf

Author : Great Britain. Committee for Compounding with Delinquents, 1643-1660
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : HARVARD:32044098621451

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The Royalist Composition Papers: A-B by Great Britain. Committee for Compounding with Delinquents, 1643-1660 Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Cheshire (England)
ISBN : UIUC:30112022705351

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Record Society for the Publication of Original Documents Relating to Lancashire and Cheshire by Anonim Pdf

Author : Matthew Gregson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1824
Category : Lancashire (England)
ISBN : OSU:32435004475943

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Portfolio by Matthew Gregson Pdf

Author : Shawna Kelly
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 0738559024

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Aviators in Early Hollywood by Shawna Kelly Pdf

Hollywood's leading aviators were heroic knights of the sky on the screen as well as in real life. These leading aviators performed aerial stunt sequences and acted, plus some wrote and directed motion pictures. Directing giant Cecil B. DeMille was so enthralled with aviation that he owned three airfields. Charlie Chaplin's family airfield also doubled as a motion-picture set. Thomas H. Ince, the famous producer who invented the studio system, owned Ince Airfield, which became the hub of Hollywood aviation. Eternal legends Rudolph Valentino, Oliver Hardy, Harry Houdini, and Mary Pickford performed in aerials. Many aviators gave their lives making motion pictures; three fatalities were incurred for Howard Hughes's great air epic, Hell's Angels. Hughes himself broke records within aircraft and film production. Aviators brought their screen work to life between films through barnstorming. The roaring in 1920s Hollywood was often aviators soaring beyond limits.

Author : Ronny Regev
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469637068

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Working in Hollywood by Ronny Regev Pdf

A history of the Hollywood film industry as a modern system of labor, this book reveals an important untold story of an influential twentieth-century workplace. Ronny Regev argues that the Hollywood studio system institutionalized creative labor by systemizing and standardizing the work of actors, directors, writers, and cinematographers, meshing artistic sensibilities with the efficiency-minded rationale of industrial capitalism. The employees of the studios emerged as a new class: they were wage laborers with enormous salaries, artists subjected to budgets and supervision, stars bound by contracts. As such, these workers--people like Clark Gable, Katharine Hepburn, and Anita Loos--were the outliers in the American workforce, an extraordinary working class. Through extensive use of oral histories, personal correspondence, studio archives, and the papers of leading Hollywood luminaries as well as their less-known contemporaries, Regev demonstrates that, as part of their contribution to popular culture, Hollywood studios such as Paramount, Warner Bros., and MGM cultivated a new form of labor, one that made work seem like fantasy.

Author : Daniel Eagan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1096 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009-11-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781441175410

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America's Film Legacy by Daniel Eagan Pdf

America's Film Legacy is a guide to the most significant films ever made in the United States. Unlike opinionated "Top 100" and arbitrary "Best of" lists, these are the real thing: groundbreaking films that make up the backbone of American cinema. Some are well-known, such as Citizen Kane, The Jazz Singer, All Quiet on the Western Front, The Birth of a Nation, and Boyz n the Hood. Others are more obscure, such as Blacksmith Scene, The Blue Bird, The Docks of New York, Star Theatre, and A Bronx Morning. Daniel Eagan's beautifully written and authoritative book is for anyone who loves American movies and who wants to learn more about them.

Author : John Paul Rylands,College of Arms (Great Britain)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Cheshire (England)
ISBN : OXFORD:590224062

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Cheshire and Lancashire Funeral Certificates, 1600 to 1678 by John Paul Rylands,College of Arms (Great Britain) Pdf

Author : Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Cheshire (England)
ISBN : UCBK:C065390017

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Publications̈ by Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire Pdf

Includes the society's Report

Author : Julie Lugo Cerra,Marc Wanamaker
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 073858200X

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Movie Studios of Culver City by Julie Lugo Cerra,Marc Wanamaker Pdf

After watching pioneer filmmaker Thomas Ince film one of his famous Westerns on Ballona Creek, city founder Harry Culver saw the economic base for his city. Culver announced plans for the city in 1913 and attracted three major movie studios to Culver City, along with smaller production companies. "The Heart of Screenland" is fittingly etched across the Culver City seal. These vintage images are a tour through the storied past of this company town on the legendary movie lots bearing the names of Thomas Ince, Hal Roach, Goldwyn, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Lorimar, MGM-UA, Columbia, Sony Pictures, DeMille, RKO-Pathe, Selznick, Desilu, Culver City Studios, Laird International, the Culver Studios, and such nearly forgotten mini-factories as the Willat Studios. On these premises, Gone With the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, Citizen Kane, E.T: The Extra-Terrestrial, and other classics were filmed, along with tens of thousands of television shows and commercials featuring Elvis Presley, the Beatles, Michael Jackson, and many others.

Author : Scott Simmon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2003-06-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0521555817

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The Invention of the Western Film by Scott Simmon Pdf

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Author : Roger Ebert
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Page : 980 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0740747428

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Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2005 by Roger Ebert Pdf

Containing reviews written from January 2002 to mid-June 2004, including the films "Seabiscuit, The Passion of the Christ," and "Finding Nemo," the best (and the worst) films of this period undergo Ebert's trademark scrutiny. It also contains the year's interviews and essays, as well as highlights from Ebert's film festival coverage from Cannes.