Twentieth Century Fox: Inside the Photo Archive - Hardcover

Martin Scorsese (forward)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0810949776 ISBN 13: 9780810949775

Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, 2004

Synopsis

A collection of stills from the eminent Hollywood studio's archives includes numerous unpublished photos of actors, directors, and crews from such films as The Grapes of Wrath, All About Eve, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and Cleopatra. 15,000 first printing.

About this title

About the Author:

Tom Rothman is the co-chairman of Twentieth Century Fox. Martin Scorsese is a legendary filmmaker who has directed some of the most important films of the last half-century, including Gangs of New York, Cape Fear, Goodfellas, The King of Comedy, Raging Bull, and Taxi Driver. Rob Easterla, Kevin Murphy, and Miles Scott are Fox archivists.

From Publishers Weekly:

This rare glimpse into the photo archives of one of Hollywood’s most formidable and enduring movie studios contains a compendium of images notable for what they reveal about the art of filmmaking. A picture of Gene Tierney on horseback waiting to shoot the scene where she scatters her father’s ashes in Leave Her to Heaven, for example, offers a voyeuristic view of Tierney "in character." "If you study her face," observes director Martin Scorsese, "you can see that her mood uncannily reflects the mood of the scene." The backstage, off-camera moments like this one illuminate this collection and set it apart from other movie-related, coffee-table tomes. Fox’s photo archives date from 1917 and include such memorable movie images as Marilyn Monroe posing, her back to the camera, in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Orson Welles and Tyrone Power taking a coffee break on the set of The Black Rose. The organization is haphazard, with old photos facing new ones and different images from the same movie scattered throughout. Sadly, the book is light on text, and those unfamiliar with the Golden Age of filmmaking will wish it contained more in-depth caption information to give some of the obscure images historical context. Ultimately, however, this collection is a heady mix of the old and new, of the classic and the "forgotten," and movie lovers who have a particular interest in films from the ’30s, ’40s and ’50s will find it a visual feast.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0810949776
• ISBN 13: 9780810949775
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240