Hollywood : the pioneers /
Brownlow, Kevin.
London : Book Club Associates,
1979.
Silent films are sometimes dismissed as quaint or out of date because of their jerky, scratchy quality: this book, and the Thames Television series with which it is associated, set out to show that they were beautiful as well as vastly entertaining works of art.
Includes index.
Substance from Shadow: pre cinema - Suspension of Disbelief: Edison and Invention - The Route to Respectability: Edwin Porter and the Theatrical Phase - Guiding Light: D.W. Griffith and Biograph - A New World for a Nickel: Nickolodeons - Lawful Larceny: The Patents War - The Mesmeriser: Griffith's Masterpieces - Expanding Empire: The Production of Intolerance - Intolerance Flourishes: World War One - Why Hollywood? Sun, Space and Somnolence - "Our Night to Howl" Social Life in Hollywood: Scandals - The Cleavage Crisis: The March of Censorship - The Iodine Squad: Stunt Men and Women - Leave 'em Laughing: Comedy - Cult of the Personality: Stardom - Great Lover of the Silver Screen: Rudolph Valentino - The Rise and Fall of John Gilbert: Gilbert and Garbo - The Fellow who can't do Anything Else: The Director - When Hollywood Ruled the World: On Location Abroad - Trick of the Light: Salute to the Cameraman - More than Meets the Eye: Salute to the Art Director - The Man you will Love to Hate: Erich von Stroheim - Sunny Siberia: The European Community - Unaccustomed as we are... he Arrival of Talking Pictures.
Silent films are sometimes dismissed as quaint or out of date because of their jerky, scratchy quality: this book, and the Thames Television series with which it is associated, set out to show that they were beautiful as well as vastly entertaining works of art.
Silent films
Motion pictures