One thousand nights at the movies : an illustrated history of motion pictures, 1895-1915 / Q. David Bowers and Kathryn Fuller-Seeley.
2013
PN1993.5.A1 B685 2013
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Title
One thousand nights at the movies : an illustrated history of motion pictures, 1895-1915 / Q. David Bowers and Kathryn Fuller-Seeley.
Author
Bowers, Q. David. author.
ISBN
9780794832506
0794832504
0794832504
Published
Atlanta, GA : Whitman Publishing, LLC, [2013]
Language
English
Description
x, 414 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm
Call Number
PN1993.5.A1 B685 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification
791.4309
Summary
This title is a detailed history of the birth of motion pictures. This richly illustrated coffee-table book charts the tumultuous growth from early inventions and Edison's innovations through the creation of film studios, picture palaces, and the first movie stars. Uniquely, the book celebrates and explores the showmanship of mom-and-pop Main Street nickelodeon theaters across the United States through a wealth of spectacular, never-before-published photographs and rare archival evidence. The authors bring a lifetime of research to this fascinating story of how an upstart new entertainment medium struggled in the early 1900s to become America's greatest form of popular culture - how it went from Main Street to Wall Street and changed the world.
Note
This title is a detailed history of the birth of motion pictures. This richly illustrated coffee-table book charts the tumultuous growth from early inventions and Edison's innovations through the creation of film studios, picture palaces, and the first movie stars. Uniquely, the book celebrates and explores the showmanship of mom-and-pop Main Street nickelodeon theaters across the United States through a wealth of spectacular, never-before-published photographs and rare archival evidence. The authors bring a lifetime of research to this fascinating story of how an upstart new entertainment medium struggled in the early 1900s to become America's greatest form of popular culture - how it went from Main Street to Wall Street and changed the world.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-405) and index.
Added Author
Fuller-Seeley, Kathryn. author.
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