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The First Hundred Years

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An edition of Cinema: the first hundred years. (1993)

Cinema

The First Hundred Years

1st ed edition
  • 3 Want to read

On February 1, 1893, Thomas Alva Edison completed the first motion picture studio: a hut on a pivot that could be rotated to follow the sun. Almost a year later, on January 7, 1894, he took a copyright for the very first film - a memorable short entitled Fred Ott's Sneeze. And from these inauspicious beginnings, one hundred years later, has grown a medium that is arguably the most popular and influential man has created.

David Shipman, for decades on of the world's leading film critics and historians, has in Cinema: The First Hundred Years given us a definitive survey of film's first century - and one of the most lavishly illustrated volumes on cinema history ever produced. With profound expertise, sharp wit and unmatched insight, Shipman chronicles the medium's watershed events, year by year - great stars discovered, classic films released, gala openings celebrated, Oscars awarded, accepted, and declined.

Here in the 1907, sixteen-scene version of Ben Hur: the classics of the 1930s and 1940s, from Gone With The Wind and Casablanca to David Copperfield and The Bride of Frankenstein: here are the Cinemascope extravaganzas of the 1950s, the road movies of the 1960s, and the modern classics of today. Shipman's scope is exhaustive; the 2,500 films covered include hundreds of international films as well as Hollywood pictures

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Accompanying Shipman's text is a photographic record unequalled in its quality: not just another compendium of familiar stills. Cinema resurrects hundreds of pristine, museum-quality photos from archives around the world, reproducing them in a striking oversize format that recalls the grandeur of moviegoing at its most memorable.

Complementing Shipman's verbal survey with a gallery of unforgettable visual images, this is a one-of-a-kind volume: the next century is not likely to see a more rewarding gift for the film fan of any age.

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St Martins Pr
Language
English
Pages
383

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October 9, 1995, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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Cinema: The First Hundred Years
November 1993, St Martins Pr
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Cinema: the first hundred years
1993, St. Martin's Press
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Library of Congress
PN1993.5.A1 S519 1993, PN1993.5.A1S519 1993

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Format
Hardcover
Number of pages
383
Dimensions
11.5 x 9.2 x 1.2 inches
Weight
4.6 pounds

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OL10385738M
Internet Archive
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ISBN 10
0312100132
ISBN 13
9780312100131
LCCN
93037560
OCLC/WorldCat
28965881
Library Thing
1457278
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