Films, Facts and Forecasts (Classic Reprint)
Language: English
Published by Forgotten Books, 2017
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Print on Demand. This revealing insider's account explores the history of the film industry and predicts its future, focusing on American influence in the business. The author explores the technical development of filmmaking, from its origins to the advent of 'talkies'. The emergence of stars like Charlie Chaplin and Mary Pickford, whose names became synonymous with the industry, is recounted both in the context of their own significance and as part of the rise of the 'star system'. The author argues that this development was essential to the global popularity of American film and explains how it continues to dominate the market. The book also investigates the role of the Government in the film industry and how it affected production, distribution, and exhibition. By examining the evolution of film, this book sheds light on broader changes within the entertainment sector and provides a fascinating insight into the growth of one of the world's most profitable and influential industries. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. …
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- Title
- Films, Facts and Forecasts (Classic Reprint)
- Author
- L'estrange Fawcett
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- Forgotten Books
- Publication year
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- Book Type
- print-on-demand item
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- Paperback
- Language
- English
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- 0259833177
- ISBN 13
- 9780259833178
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The motion picture, by its very essence as a visual art, is as universal as sight itself. Because it is recognised by all peoples, the figure of Man in its many phases and aspects should be the sole subject-matter of cinema plays, made in whatever country the accidents of life may have placed the creative artists.
Mr. Fawcett's pages, read in manuscript here in New York City, reveal his full comprehension of this highly essential point at the outset of his approach to appraisal of the cinema in its larger meanings. Further, his words disclose a genuine sympathy for the art of the motion picture and a wholesome concern for the ultimate establishment of the film-industry on a basis of sound values.
The people who have devoted their lives to develop ment of the cinema could not possibly have been held to the virtual slavery of their self-imposed tasks by the love of gold alone. Long ago they had amassed suffi cient wealth to sustain them in mutton and ale the rest of their natural lives. There must have been, must be, a fascination that radiates from the magic of celluloid, arousing the amateur spirit in men and women comprised in their totality so largely of a sector that admits itself with disarming frankness to be wholly commercial in objective.
It has been from the film itself, a device offering constant provocation to the imagination and senses of rhythm and colour, that the sheer strength and crude grandeur of the motion-picture industry have come.
A giant of limitless power has been reared, so huge that no one quite knows what to do with it.
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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.
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