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Before the Movies - Terry Borton - Bog

- American Magic Lantern Entertainment and the Nation's First Great Screen Artist, Joseph Boggs Beale

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Before the Movies is the first book about American screen entertainment in the pre-movie era. A groundbreaking study, lavishly illustrated with 330 color pictures, it is a comprehensive survey of the American artists who created early magic-lantern stories and songs for the screen. The book emphasizes the work of Joseph Boggs Beale, a pioneer in the field and demonstrates that Beale almost single-handedly created American-made screen entertainment for the generation before the movies. His lifetime output was 2,073 images in 258 setsΓÇöthe screen-time equivalent of 14 full-length filmsΓÇöwhich millions enjoyed every year. The provenance, attribution, and dates of BealeΓÇÖs lantern slides are discussed in detail, and a comprehensive catalog of his lantern images makes Before the Movies an essential reference volume.

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  • Sprog:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9780861967117
  • Indbinding:
  • Hardback
  • Sideantal:
  • 208
  • Udgivet:
  • 10. februar 2015
  • Størrelse:
  • 261x200x20 mm.
  • Vægt:
  • 876 g.
  • Ukendt - mangler pt..
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Before the Movies is the first book about American screen entertainment in the pre-movie era. A groundbreaking study, lavishly illustrated with 330 color pictures, it is a comprehensive survey of the American artists who created early magic-lantern stories and songs for the screen. The book emphasizes the work of Joseph Boggs Beale, a pioneer in the field and demonstrates that Beale almost single-handedly created American-made screen entertainment for the generation before the movies. His lifetime output was 2,073 images in 258 setsΓÇöthe screen-time equivalent of 14 full-length filmsΓÇöwhich millions enjoyed every year. The provenance, attribution, and dates of BealeΓÇÖs lantern slides are discussed in detail, and a comprehensive catalog of his lantern images makes Before the Movies an essential reference volume.

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