Bøger af John V Watson

A definitive survey of the directors, of the actors and actresses, and of the other production and distribution personnel who worked for Julius Hagen at Twickenham Film Studios, from 1928 to 1938.Includes short biographies and filmographies for all these participants at Twickenham Studios, together with some rare photographs.Plus analyses of: The number of Hagen films released by each British distributor;The Literary Sources of the Scenarios;The Film Adaptations from Novels;The eight Twickenham 'Super' Feature Films made in 1931-32; and The six Hagen films released on 9.5mm by Pathéscope.

The tag, 'Czar of Twickenham', was coined by the celebrated British film director, Michael Powell, during an interview he had with Ian Christie, as recorded in Christie's book, Powell, Pressburger and Others, London, 1978 (page 18). Michael Powell was describing to that author how he was able to film the comedy Lazybones (1935) at night, for Julius Hagen at Twickenham Studios. Given what we will discover and grow to appreciate about Julius Hagen as we journey through, and learn about, his extraordinary career in the British film industry, to hail him 'The Czar of Twickenham' is certainly more than just appropriate. As we shall see, he was in charge of every aspect of his growing film empire. Hence the excellent reason to use Powell's soubriquet as the title of this study about Julius Hagen and his contribution to the British film industry of the 1930s. Therefore, the essence of this set of two books is to provide a complete and extensive record of the films Julius Hagen produced.

This book, the fourth in the series, provides a complete and extensively detailed history and filmography of the nine films released in CinemaScope by Warner Brothers during 1954, as obtained from contemporary reviews and news items published at the time by trade journals and movie fan magazines. Uniquely, most of this detailed information has never been published in book form.

This book, the third in the series, provides a complete and extensively detailed history and filmography of the seven films released in CinemaScope by M-G-M during 1953 and 1954, as obtained from contemporary reviews and news items published at the time by trade journals and movie fan magazines.

ILLUSTRATED. This book, the first in a series about the History of Widescreen in the Cinema, describes the development of widescreen in the cinema, briefly, from the earliest days of this new and exciting innovation. It then covers the use of the panorama by D. W. Griffith in 1915, the introduction of "Magnascope" by Fox in 1926, the significant use of the three-screen technique by Able Gance in 1927, and finally the launch of several wide-film/widescreen systems by Hollywood studios in the brief period, from 1929 to 1931. A detailed Filmography is then provided by the book of the fourteen wide-film/widescreen films made by Hollywood studios in that short time frame of three years, and why this innovative move was so short-lived and consequently failed. But the wide-film/widescreen concept was not to die; as events transpired, it was merely to lay dormant for what became a time interval of just over two decades.

The tag, 'Czar of Twickenham', was coined by the celebrated British film director, Michael Powell, during an interview he had with Ian Christie, as recorded in Christie's book, Powell, Pressburger and Others, London, 1978 (page 18). Michael Powell was describing to that author how he was able to film the comedy Lazybones (1935) at night, for Julius Hagen at Twickenham Studios. Given what we will discover and grow to appreciate about Julius Hagen as we journey through, and learn about, his extraordinary career in the British film industry, to hail him 'The Czar of Twickenham' is certainly more than just appropriate. As we shall see, he was in charge of every aspect of his growing film empire. Hence the excellent reason to use Powell's soubriquet as the title of this study about Julius Hagen and his contribution to the British film industry of the 1930s. Therefore, the essence of this set of two books is to provide a complete and extensive record of the films Julius Hagen produced.