Buffalo Bill on the silver screen
Subtitle: the films of William F. Cody
By: Sandra K. Sagala
Series: The William F. Cody series on the history and culture of the American West -- volume 1; William F. Cody series on the history and culture of the American West -- v. 1.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9780806143613
Subjects: Documentary films; Pioneers; Entertainers; History and criticism; In motion pictures; Actors; Motion picture producers and directors; Motion picture industry; Biography; History
Other titles: Films of William F. Cody
Description: For more than thirty years, William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody entertained audiences across the United States and Europe with his Wild West show. Scores of books have been written about Cody's fabled career as a showman, but his involvement in the film industry - following the dissolution of his traveling show - is less well known. In this book, Sandra K. Sagala chronicles the fascinating story of Cody's venture into filmmaking during the early cinema period. In 1894 Thomas Edison invited Cody to bring some of the Wild West performers to the inventor's kinetoscope studio. From then on, as Sagala reveals, Cody was frequently in the camera's eye, eager to participate in the newest and most popular phenomenon of the era: the motion picture. In 1910, promoter Pliny Craft produced 'The Life of Buffalo Bill', a film in which Cody played his own persona.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-208) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The advent of western movies; title: The first studio filming; title: Filming the Wild West; title: A cinematic biography; title: Disaster in Denver; title: Cue the government, the army, the financiers; title: On location; title: Post-production; title: Box office buzz; title: Fade out; title: Final scenes; title: The show goes on: Cody's character in film.