Early Cinema (8 results)

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. 11 pages, illustrated. With list of books. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Supplied without title page or cover. Size: 14 x 21 cms. Category: Book & Magazine Collector; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

4to, 1 p. On aged, worn paper with small area of loss at head (not affecting text). He will be 'pleased to act on the Committee to judge of the stories for filming', and is glad that 'the work will not be onerous'. In a postscript gives the version of his name he wishes given for announcing ('Right Hon. Sir Gilbert Parker Bt.'). According to his entry in the Oxford DNB, no fewer than sixteen of Parker's novels were filmed. As head of British propaganda in America, 1914-1916, Parker had a direct involvement with the medium.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original Wedgwood blue cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered yellow back and end sheets. 8vo. 8½'' x 6''. Contains 159 pp with monochrome illustrations and photographs throughout. Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped. SIGNED by the author to the front free end paper 'For Peter and Janet, on our first meeting | Paul Hammond, London 12th June 1983.' Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. CINEMA, SCREEN & FILMS.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. P(irre) Nogues (1878-1971), "Un nouveau cinematographe a images tres frequentes", in Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences, Paris, 22 July 1912, pp 273-275 in the weekly issue of pp 253-336. Offered with the original front wrapper. The issue is removed from a larger bound volume. Also, there is an old vertical fold running through and through. Provenance: Library, U.S. Weather Bureau, with their rubber stamp on the front page. Good condition. __+__This is one of those posts where I was looking for something in the Comptes Rendus and then found something completely different. The what-it-was was something about Poincare, at this point dead for just a week, the second titanic to disappear this year--it is really impossible to understand how he was able to do what he did in a lifespan of 58 years.of course he was a master of nearly every field, and was able to work his math problems out in his head first before writing them out, so it helped to be a multi-genius--and while not finding a notice on his death in the weekly issue I did "discover" an intriguing (and unrelated to Poincare) illustration. __+__ At first I thought it would be related to an article on the depiction of motion as the drawing seemed to represent the anatomy of two dancers, and have some sort of fourth dimension/art/science relation, or whathaveyou, but then I saw it was a schematic for a part of motion picture camera--a kinematograph/cinematograph--that made 180 images per second, and would be just the sort of instrument used to study fast-moving objects in minute detail. So the schematic really did portray the essence of what the machine did, exploring the designs of motion.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. SCRAPBOOK of MOVIE STARS from the SILENT FILM and early TALKIES era. Staple-bound heavy cardstock wraps with tipped on photo-illustration of Mae McAvoy, with her name handwritten beneath; pp. 28, each with tipped-on and hand-labeled film stills and photographic images of celebrities, most with tissue guards. Front cover a bit sunned, lightly chipped along the edges; internally bright and clean, remarkably tidy in its layout and preservation. A collection of 110 images of actors from the silent film and early talkies era, including Inga Tidblad, Mona Martensson, Corinne Griffith, Milton Sills, Norma Talmadge, Colleen Moore, Charlie Chaplin, Lillian Gish, and many more. All images are neatly labeled by hand, with an indexed list of the actors handwritten on the inside rear cover.

Programme, 16 pages including cover, 245 x 185 mm. Filmed over a dozen times, this is the third film, and the last silent version, filmed in France using mainly Russian actors, exiles from the Russian Revolution.

Vintage Philadelphia Department of Public Safety Operator's License "regulating the Operations of Moving Picture Machines," issued February 27, 1915. License issued to a Frank C. Jobson, with his passport-style photograph affixed to the upper right corner of the recto. Seal of the Philadelphia Department of Public Safety blindstamp at bottom left corner of the photograph. Signatory for the Director of the Department of Public Safety still visible below the date. 10.75 x 8.25 inches. Very Good plus, with two previous vertical creases, two tiny chips, one to each of the right corners, even toning and light overall soiling, and two tiny pieces of cello tape, one to the upper left and one to the bottom right of the recto.

No Binding. Condition: Fine. Three Quarto Albums containing 214 original photographic stills in excellent condition together with an original " 2001 A Space Odyssey" Campaign book and original A3 sized "3D" Publicity Card aswell as a group of related repro cards. The unique collection ;-.