MOTION PICTURE CONTINUITIES

Patterson, Frances Taylor; Goldbeck, Willis; Martin, Townsend; Marion, Frances; Goodrich, John; Barrie, J. M.; Hawthorne, Nathaniel; Biro, Lajos

Published by Columbia University Press, New York, 1929

About this Item

First printing of this educational survey that combines advice on screenwriting and directing with the scenario scripts for the films "A Kiss for Cinderella," "The Last Command," and "The Scarlet Letter." "Patterson was one of the earliest university lecturers on motion pictures," notes the Women Film Pioneers Project; for her, "the writer, and not the director, was the guiding vision behind a film." This is clear in MOTION PICTURE CONTINUITIES, where she emphasizes the aesthetic composition of the scenes and placements of the actors within a shot. Her career is ripe for further study, as her "desire to teach in adult-education and outreach programs" was "rarely recognized as important by chroniclers of university history" (Women Film Pioneers Project). 7.5'' x 4.75''. Original red cloth binding. Original unclipped ($3.00) pictorial dust jacket. Black-and-white pictorial frontispiece with three black-and-white plates. x, [4], 246 pages. Jacket with some edgewear and a bit of rubbing. One tiny spot of soil to fore-edge. Clean and bright. Near fine in very good plus dust jacket.

Seller Inventory # 45899

Bibliographic Details

• Title: MOTION PICTURE CONTINUITIES
• Publisher: Columbia University Press, New York
• Publication Date: 1929
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First edition.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included