num_pages: 268
description: If you're a pre-talking picture Hollywood movie buff this book is for you! Here is the sudden emergence of a film colony and the personalities that formed the early film industry camermen directors stars. A history of the beginning days of movie making in Hollywood focusing on the great actors like Keaton Chaplin &amp; Fairbanks &amp; the great directors like Griffith &amp; Raoul Walsh. Alive with the excitement of the old Hollywood peppered with vivid cinematic and social recollections never before on record illustrated with 300 rare photos - stills on-the-set shots portraits most of them published here for the first time and reproduced from the original negatives or prints - this is a unique film history the result of a unique collaboration.
language: English
title: Hollywood: The Pioneers
publisher: Knopf