CinemaScope: Selected Documents from the Spyros P. Skouras Archive - Softcover

Chrissochoidis, Ilias

9780615898803: CinemaScope: Selected Documents from the Spyros P. Skouras Archive

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0615898807 ISBN 13: 9780615898803

Publisher: Brave World, 2013

CinemaScope (1953), the process that established the widescreen format in motion pictures, was more than a technical innovation. It breathed life into the film industry, saved Twentieth Century-Fox from liquidation, and inducted its president Spyros P. Skouras into the pantheon of American visionaries. For the first time an intimate story of the second technological revolution in film history emerges from the papers of Spyros P. Skouras. Ranging from correspondence with Churchill and Eisenhower to company memos and financial reports, this collection is an indispensable source for the historian and affords a rare glimpse into Hollywood's corporate performance at its best.

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About the Author:

A Stanford University scholar, composer and pianist, Ilias Chrissochoidis has been conducting groundbreaking research on Skouras since late 2011. He is the editor of "Spyros P. Skouras: Memoirs (1893-1953)" and "The Cleopatra Files: Selected Documents from the Spyros P. Skouras Archive." http://www.stanford.edu/~ichriss/Skouras.htm

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