TY  - BOOK
N2  - 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.
AB  - 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.
T1  - One thousand nights at the movies :an illustrated history of motion pictures, 1895-1915 /
AU  - Bowers, Q. David.
AU  - Fuller-Seeley, Kathryn.
CN  - PN1993.5.A1
CN  - PN1993.5.A1
ID  - 470940
KW  - Motion pictures
KW  - Silent films
SN  - 9780794832506
SN  - 0794832504
TI  - One thousand nights at the movies :an illustrated history of motion pictures, 1895-1915 /
ER  -