Author: United Artists CorporationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
The Story of United Artists Product 1937-38
Author: United Artists CorporationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
The Story of United Artists Product, 1937-1938
Author: The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Sabu
Author: Michael LawrencePublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1137446226
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
The first Indian to become an international film star, Sabu rose to fame as a child actor in Elephant Boy (1937), and subsequently appeared in a succession of British pictures before relocating to Hollywood, where he died in 1963. Repeatedly cast in orientalist extravaganzas and jungle thrillers, he was associated with the 'exotic' and the 'primitive' in ways that reflected contemporary attitudes towards India and 'the East' more generally. In this captivating study, Michael Lawrence explores the historical, political, cultural contexts of Sabu's popularity as a star, and considers the technological and industrial shifts that shaped his career – from the emergence of Technicolor in the late 1930s to the breakdown of the studio system in the 1950s. Attending to the detail of Sabu's distinctively physical performances, Lawrence shows how his agency as an actor enabled him to endure, exceed and exploit his unique star image.
United Artists, Volume 1, 1919–1950
Author: Tino BalioPublisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299230036
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
United Artists was a unique motion picture company in the history of Hollywood. Founded by Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and director D.W. Griffith—four of the greatest names of the silent era—United Artists functioned as a distribution company for independent producers. In this lively and detailed history of United Artists from 1919 through 1951, film scholar Tino Balio chronicles the company’s struggle for survival, its rise to prominence as the Tiffany of the industry, and its near extinction in the 1940s. This edition is updated with a new introduction by Balio that places in relief UA’s operations for those readers who may be unfamiliar with film industry practices and adds new perspective to the company’s place within Hollywood.
The Film Daily Product Guide and Director's Annual
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Motion picture industry
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Catalog of United States Census Publications, 1790-1945
Author: Library of Congress. Census Library ProjectPublisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
The Film Daily Presents the Product Guide and Directors' Annual, 1937 (Classic Reprint)
Author: Film DailyPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780260570598
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
Excerpt from The Film Daily Presents the Product Guide and Directors' Annual, 1937 U Ufa Films, Inc. - 1937-1938 Program 143 United Artists-1938 Program 143 Universal Pictures - 1937-1938 Program. 147 V Viennese Film Co. - l937-1938 Program. 151 Vitaphone - l937 l938 Program 153 W Wanger, Walter, Productions, Inc. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Catalogue of the Public Documents of the [the Fifty-third] Congress [to the 76th Congress] and of All Departments of the Government of the United States
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Author: United States. Superintendent of DocumentsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 3208
Book Description
A History of the Hal Roach Studios
Author: Richard Lewis WardPublisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 9780809388066
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Once labeled the “lot that laugher built,” the Hal Roach Studios launched the comedic careers of such screen icons as Harold Lloyd, Our Gang, and Laurel and Hardy. With this stable of stars, the Roach enterprise operated for forty-six years on the fringes of the Hollywood studio system during a golden age of cinema and gained notoriety as a producer of short comedies, independent features, and weekly television series. Many of its productions are better remembered today than those by its larger contemporaries. In A History of the Hal Roach Studios, Richard Lewis Ward meticulously follows the timeline of the company’s existence from its humble inception in 1914 to its close in 1960 and, through both its obscure and famous productions, traces its resilience to larger trends in the entertainment business. In the first few decades of the twentieth century, the motion picture industry was controlled by an elite handful of powerful firms that allowed very little room for new competition outside of their established cartel. The few independents that garnered some measure of success despite their outsider status usually did so by specializing in underserved or ignored niche markets. Here, Ward chronicles how the Roach Studios, at the mercy of exclusive distribution practices, managed to repeatedly redefine itself in order to survive for nearly a half-century in a cutthroat environment. Hal Roach’s tactic was to nurture talent rather than exhaust it, and his star players spent the prime of their careers shooting productions on his lot. Even during periods of decline or misdirection, the Roach Studios turned out genuinely original material, such as the screwball classic Topper (1937), the brutally frank Of Mice and Men (1940), and the silent experiment One Million B.C. (1940). Ward’s exploration yields insight into the production and marketing strategies of an organization on the periphery of the theatrical film industry and calls attention to the interconnected nature of the studio system during the classic era. The volume also looks to the early days of television when the prolific Roach Studios embraced the new medium to become, for a time, the premier telefilm producer. Aided by a comprehensive filmography and twenty-seven illustrations, A History of the Hal Roach Studios recounts an overlooked chapter in American cinema, not only detailing the business operations of Roach’s productions but also exposing the intricate workings of Hollywood’s rivalrous moviemaking establishment.