Lights, Camera, Action!: Behind the Scenes Making Movies

Louis Goldman

ISBN 10: 0810913240 / ISBN 13: 9780810913240

Published by Harry N Abrams Inc, U.S.A., 1986

About this Item

A clean, tight copy sans flecks, tears, stains, discoloration, and text and illustration markings. "Louis Goldman, a still photographer for nearly seventy major films, presents his personal archive-nearly 200 candid, off-screen pictures." PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED in Goldman's arresting black-and-white photography (most full page) with accompanying descriptive captions. "Goldman shares the whole marvelous process with the reader-the moments of tension, boredom, and hilarity that punctuate the serious and costly business of making movies." 216 pages. NOTE: Due to the large size and weight of the book additional shipping cost will be requested/required for OUT-OF-U.S. shipment. GE2.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Lights, Camera, Action!: Behind the Scenes Making Movies
• Publisher: Harry N Abrams Inc, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0810913240
• ISBN 13: 9780810913240
• Binding: Cloth Hardcover
• Illustrator: Profusely Illustrated
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

Filled with energy and creativity that moviemakers pour into their craft. Goldman shares his experiences and insights into the workings of a major film production. Director Steven Spielberg sitting on top of the giant great white from the Jaws movie, John Wayne resting by a chair in the movie The Alamo in his furskin hat, Anthony Quinn training in Central Park, Warren Beatty, Michael Caine, James Garner, Robin Williams and many others. Introduction by Gregory Peck.

Reviews

Beginning in 1960, with John Wayne's The Alamo and Otto Preminger's Exodus , still photographer Goldman has taken pictures on the sets of nearly 70 films. Assembled here are not the standard publicity shots one sees in newspapers and magazines, but the candid, much more revealing glimpses of the process of making movies. Goldman does supply a text of sorts, but he is much more eloquent with a camera than he is with a pen. There are nearly 200 black-and-white photographs, all of them testimony to the strange and wonderful mixture of boredom and excitement that pervades the set of any film. This is the best book of its kind since Bob Willoughby's The Platinum Years (1974). Thomas Wiener, formerly with "American Film," Washington, D.C.
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