Silent Stars Speak
Author: Keith McCullough
Publisher: Dayone C/O Grace Books
Published: 2011-10-15
Total Pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9781846252914
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A fun sticker and activity book on the stars, divided into thirteen enjoyable sections
Author: Keith McCullough
Publisher: Dayone C/O Grace Books
Published: 2011-10-15
Total Pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9781846252914
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A fun sticker and activity book on the stars, divided into thirteen enjoyable sections
Author: Tony Villecco
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2015-11-18
Total Pages: 201
ISBN-13: 0786482095
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The pioneers of the motion picture industry were a group of uncommonly talented men, women, and children. Many of their films have now vanished or disintegrated, and the only evidence of them is in the memories of their creators. The twelve men and women featured in this collection of interviews share their memories of the early days of filmmaking, from the technicalities of lighting and production, to celebrities they encountered. The interviewees include Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Virginia Cherrill, child star "Baby Peggy," director Andrew Stone, and original "Our Gang" member Jean Darling. Their stories of what it was like to make a movie in the silent era are illuminating glimpses into an era that fades with every passing year. Each interview is accompanied by a comprehensive filmography, and dozens of photographs of these celebrities and their associates are also included.
Author: Tony Villecco
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2001-02-12
Total Pages: 201
ISBN-13: 0786408146
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The pioneers of the motion picture industry were a group of uncommonly talented men, women, and children. Many of their films have now vanished or disintegrated, and the only evidence of them is in the memories of their creators. The twelve men and women featured in this collection of interviews share their memories of the early days of filmmaking, from the technicalities of lighting and production, to celebrities they encountered. The interviewees include Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Virginia Cherrill, child star "Baby Peggy," director Andrew Stone, and original "Our Gang" member Jean Darling. Their stories of what it was like to make a movie in the silent era are illuminating glimpses into an era that fades with every passing year. Each interview is accompanied by a comprehensive filmography, and dozens of photographs of these celebrities and their associates are also included.
Author: Jeanine Basinger
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 2012-10-17
Total Pages: 512
ISBN-13: 0307829189
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From one of America's most renowned film scholars: a revelatory, perceptive, and highly readable look at the greatest silent film stars -- not those few who are fully appreciated and understood, like Chaplin, Keaton, Gish, and Garbo, but those who have been misperceived, unfairly dismissed, or forgotten. Here is Valentino, "the Sheik," who was hardly the effeminate lounge lizard he's been branded as; Mary Pickford, who couldn't have been further from the adorable little creature with golden ringlets that was her film persona; Marion Davies, unfairly pilloried in Citizen Kane; the original "Phantom" and "Hunchback," Lon Chaney; the beautiful Talmadge sisters, Norma and Constance. Here are the great divas, Pola Negri and Gloria Swanson; the great flappers, Colleen Moore and Clara Bow; the great cowboys, William S. Hart and Tom Mix; and the great lover, John Gilbert. Here, too, is the quintessential slapstick comedienne, Mabel Normand, with her Keystone Kops; the quintessential all-American hero, Douglas Fairbanks; and, of course, the quintessential all-American dog, Rin-Tin-Tin. This is the first book to anatomize the major silent players, reconstruct their careers, and give us a sense of what those films, those stars, and that Hollywood were all about. An absolutely essential text for anyone seriously interested in movies, and, with more than three hundred photographs, as much a treat to look at as it is to read.
Author: Jeanine Basinger
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 2000-11
Total Pages: 528
ISBN-13: 9780819564511
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An eminent film historian illuminates the stars of silent film.
Author: Bill Wise
Publisher:
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781600604119
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A biography of William "Dummy" Hoy, one of the first deaf major league baseball players.
Author: Michael G. Ankerich
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"A Labor of Love...Informative, Insightful Reminiscences"---The Silent Film Monthly --
Author: Mtutuzeli Nyoka
Publisher: Pan Macmillan South africa
Published: 2014-08-01
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13: 1770103651
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Walter Hambile Kondile is the typical ‘good native’ of his generation, poorly educated and subservient, brought up to know his place and believe that ‘it was God’s design for the white man to rule over me’. Then Kondile’s beloved daughter, Sindiswa, a young struggle activist, goes missing in exile. Kondile’s search leads him to Lesotho and grim discoveries of betrayal that shatter forever his own ‘complicity of silence’, committing him to an irrevocable path of no return. This is a compelling and beautifully written novel by Mtutuzeli Nyoka, a powerful storyteller who tells his history as he sees it.
Author: Michael Glover Smith
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2015-01-20
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 0231850794
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Flickering Empire tells the fascinating yet little-known story of how Chicago served as the unlikely capital of American film production in the years before the rise of Hollywood (1907–1913). As entertaining as it is informative, Flickering Empire straddles the worlds of academic and popular nonfiction in its vivid illustration of the rise and fall of the major Chicago movie studios in the mid-silent era (principally Essanay and Selig Polyscope). Colorful, larger-than-life historical figures, including Thomas Edison, Charlie Chaplin, Oscar Micheaux, and Orson Welles, are major players in the narrative—in addition to important though forgotten industry titans, such as "Colonel" William Selig, George Spoor, and Gilbert "Broncho Billy" Anderson.
Author: CCC-SLP Payal Burnham MSEd.
Publisher:
Published: 2021-05-26
Total Pages: 28
ISBN-13: 9780228845584
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Sally Smith is reluctant to speak to her classmates and teachers, but as days go by she develops the courage to become a brave speaker. This Teach to Speech book helps guide children who are reluctant speakers or selectively mute to become bold, brave and resilient, like Sally in this story.