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Pare Lorentz and the Documentary Film [SIGNED by composer Virgil Thomson]

By: Snyder, Robert L.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Norman, University of Oklahoma Press: (c.1968)

Seller ID: 24004

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dj

[light shelfwear, a handful of tiny white-paint stains on bottom edges of covers (probably due to the book's have been placed on a newly-painted shelf before the paint had thoroughly dried); the jacket appears to be somewhat unevenly color-shifted on the front panel and spine, and has a small ragged tear at the top of the rear panel]. (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the ffep by composer Virgil Thomson, to film producer Richard Goldstone: "for Richard Goldstone / a Lorentz graduate / from another one / and now you and I have / worked together / a privilege and a pleasure / Virgil...
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American Audiences on Movies and Moviegoing

By: Stempel, Tom

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Lexington, The University Press of Kentucky: (c.2001)

Seller ID: 18028

ISBN: 0-8131-2183-3

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[book itself is tight and clean, with no significant wear; jacket the same, except for soft vertical crease in front flap and diagonal crease at lower corner of rear flap]. The author draws on his more than fifty years' experience of "watching movies and his fellow filmgoers [and] listening to their comments and reactions," as well as "the results of a survey on movies and moviegoing in the respondents' own words," to present "a unique perspective on half a century of American cinema -- from the audience's point of view."
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America Goes to the Movies: 100 Years of Motion Picture Exhibition

By: Stone, Barbara

Price: $20.00

Publisher: North Hollywood CA, National Association of Theatre Owners: 1993

Seller ID: 22062

ISBN: 0-9638653-0-7

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[book nice and clean with no discernible wear; jacket shows only minor wrinkling here and there along edges, tiny tears at rear corners]. (B&W and color photographs) "Spiced with the personal anecdotes of motion picture exhibitors, [this book] captures the broad sweep of American moviegoing with a highly readable and engaging style. Lavishly illustrated with photographs and memorabilia culled from the personal scrapbooks of veteran movie showmen and others, this book is a lively chronicle of all the way Americans have enjoyed going to the movies." Bibliography; index.
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The Motion Picture Theater: Planning, Upkeep

By: Stote, Helen M., ed.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, Society of Motion Picture Engineers, Inc.: 1948

Seller ID: 24785

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

[book is nice and clean, with just a touch of shelfwear; jacket has small tears at most corners with a bit of associated paper loss at same, some horizontal creasing along top edge due to having long been mis-aligned on the book]. (B&W photographs, tables, figures) "Thirty-eight articles on the technical aspects of motion picture theater planning, construction, maintenance, modernization, and theater television, prepared for presentation before the Society of Motion Picture Engineers." Following two introductory articles, the pieces are arranged in eight categories: Physical Construc...
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The Last Picture Shows: Edinburgh: Ninety years of cinema entertainment in Scotland's capital city

By: Thomas, Brendon

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Edinburgh, Moorfoot Publishing: 1984

Seller ID: 23928

ISBN: 0906606098

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

[nice clean book with no significant wear]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) "An alphabetically-listed description of Edinburgh [and Leith] cinemas past and present."
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The Ruby Slippers of Oz

By: Thomas, Rhys

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, Tale Weaver Publishing: (c.1989)

Seller ID: 18079

ISBN: 0-942139-09-7

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good-

[moderately worn copy, diagonal crease at bottom corner of front cover, slight curling to covers]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) This tale of the iconographic power (and great value) of the original ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in the 1939 film classic "The Wizard of Oz" exposes "the clandestine and often treacherous underground of movie memorabilia, [and] may be the film industry's most bizarre account of ambition, greed, obsession, and deception. [It] opens the vault doors of studio treasure troves and also reveals an unbelievable account of marauders, thieves, innocent 'sol...
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Beneath Mulholland: Thoughts on Hollywood and Its Ghosts [SIGNED]

By: Thomson, David

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1997

Seller ID: 24573

ISBN: 0679451153

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice tight clean copy, with no discernible wear to book; the jacket has some minor surface wear and some very slight wrinkling along the top of the rear panel]. INSCRIBED briefly ("To ________") and SIGNED by the author on the title page. The author "is at his incomparable best in this stunning collection of essays on Hollywood films -- their stars and the illusions they create. He explorres a sort of twilight zone where film actors and the characters they play become part of our reality, as living beings and as ghosts, residing on or buried beneath Mulholland Drive, or wanderin...
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Okay for Sound: How the Screen Found Its Voice

By: Thrasher, Frederic M., ed.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Duell, Sloan and Pearce: (c.1946)

Seller ID: 24578

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

[virtually no wear at all to the book; the jacket is lightly soiled, scuffed along the spine, with some paper loss surrounding the base of the spine and a short closed tear and associated creasing at the bottom right corner of the front panel]. (B&W photographs) A history of how sound recording was introduced to the movies, with heavy emphasis (and credit) given to the contributions of Warner Bros. -- not too surprisingly, since Warners was also the primary mover behind the movie industry's "20th Anniversary of Talking Pictures" campaign in 1946. Although there's no overt sponsorship...
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Before Caligari: German Cinema, 1895-1920 / Prima di Caligari: Cinema tedesco, 1895-1920

By: Usai, Paolo Cherchi, and Lorenzo Codelli, eds.

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Pordenone (Italy), Edizioni Biblioteca dell'Immagine: 1990

Seller ID: 24432

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[slight scrunching to a few pages along fore-edge, no other significant wear; jacket slightly wrinkled along the top edge (the result of its being just a tad taller than the book itself), and with some careless pen-tip indentations in the front panel (virtually invisible against the black background)]. (B&W photographs, facsimiles) A wide-ranging collection of articles and essays on the German cinema prior to THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI; published in conjunction with a retrospective at that year's Pordenone Silent Film Festival (Le Giornate del Cinema Muto). Although the cover title and jacke...
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Catalogue de Mentay: Histoire du cinéma mondial sur les timbres

By: Utepbergenov, Mentay S.

Price: $65.00

Publisher: [Kazakstan], Sur Tur Books: 1997

Seller ID: 18146

ISBN: NO

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

[nice clean copy, very light handling wear, short diagonal crease at bottom right corner of front cover]. (color reproductions) A "history of world cinema on stamps," apparently the catalogue of the personal collection of movie- and entertainment-themed stamps assembled by the author, a Kazakstan-born actor who had at the time appeared in 47 films, primarily Russian, but had also been a stamp collector for thirty years (it sez here, in French), exercising his dual passion for both cinema and philately. I don't know whether this guy is world-renowned in stamp-collecting circles or not...
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Paramount in Paris: 300 Films Produced at the Joinville Studios, 1930-1933, with Credits and Biographies

By: Waldman, Harry

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Lanham MD/London, The Scarecrow Press, Inc.: 1998

Seller ID: 20033

ISBN: 0-8108-3431-6

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

(no dust jacket, as issued) [faint soiling to front cover, otherwise virtually as new with no discernible wear]. A history of this French facility, which turned out foreign-language versions of Paramount's films for European distribution. The text is arranged into chapters discussing the films by nationality: French, Spanish, Swedish, German, Italian, Polish, Czech, Portuguese, Hungarian, Dutch, and Romanian.
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Scenes Unseen: Unreleased and Uncompleted Films from the World's Master Filmmakers, 1912-1990

By: Waldman, Harry

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Jefferson NC/London, McFarland & Company, Inc.: (c.1991)

Seller ID: 20739

ISBN: 0-89950-601-1

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

(no dust jacket, as issued) [lovely copy with no discernible wear; would be Fine but for previous owner's inked initials at top of ffep]. (B&W photographs) Examines the uncompleted or unreleased projects of 64 filmmakers, from the famous (Alfred Hitchcock, Charles Chaplin, John Ford, Orson Welles) to the more obscure (Gaston Modot, Laszlo Ranody, Wolfgang Staudte). You'll find all the well-known usual suspects here -- Josef von Sternberg's I, CLAUDIUS, George Cukor's SOMETHING'S GOT TO GIVE, Erich von Stroheim's QUEEN KELLY, Welles's DON QUIXOTE and others, etc. -- but also a lot of equally ...
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Delmar Watson's Goin' Hollywood 1887-1987 [SIGNED]

By: Watson, Delmar, ed.; written by Paul Arnold

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Hollywood CA, Delmar Watson Publisher: (c.1987)

Seller ID: 26154

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

[minor wear to edges of covers and along spine, thin horizontal scratch line on rear cover]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) SIGNED by Delmar Watson on the title page. Watson grew up in Hollywood: his father was an actor, and he and his brothers were one of the best-known kid thespian clans during the Thirties and Forties. (The Watsons played four of Governor "Happy" Hopper's kids in the memorable dinner-table scene in MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON, for instance.) Once his acting days had passed, Delmar took up photography and became one of the town's most prominent lensmen. Although this book ...
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Filming San Diego: Hollywood's Backlot, 1898-2002 (The Journal of San Diego History, Spring 2002)

By: Williams, Gregory L. (Hennessey, Gregg R., ed.)

Price: $30.00

Publisher: San Diego, San Diego Historical Society: 2002

Seller ID: 15193

ISBN: 0-918740-24-X

Binding: Journal

Condition: Near Fine

[minor handling wear only]. (B&W photographs) A special issue of The Journal of San Diego history, devoted to the city's history on the silver screen. The primary article is accompanied by an introduction, "San Diego Film Town," by Welton Jones, and a chronological listing (compiled by Mr. Williams) of 752 films (including TV productions) that have been filmed in San Diego or have plots concerning the city, beginning in 1898.
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The Motion Picture Stunt Pilots and Hollywood's Classic Aviation Movies

By: Wynne, H. Hugh

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Missoula MT, Pictorial Histories Publishing Company: 1987

Seller ID: 20087

ISBN: 0-933126-85-9

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Fine

[very nice copy, virtually as new with no significant wear; clean inside and out]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) The author explains his book's scope in his Preface: "The total subject of motion picture flying, from its beginning to the present, is far too extensive to be adequately covered in one volume. Therefore this book is limited to the 1920s and 1930s, the period of the pioneer stunt flyers -- the Associated Motion Picture Pilots. It ends with the end of the romantic era of aviation, which was the beginning of World War II." An excellent history, illustrated with hundreds of ph...
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Movie Westerns

By: Yeck, Joanne L., and Tom McGreevey

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Minneapolis, Lerner Publications Company: (c.1994)

Seller ID: 12103

ISBN: 0-8225-1643-8

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice copy, as new, no discernible wear to book; just a trace of surface wear to jacket]. (B&W/color photographs) Simplified yet still scholarly introduction to the history of Western films, for juvenile readers.
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INTOLERANCE / An Homage to D.W. Griffith

By: {D.W. Griffith} Edlund, Richard (director); Lillian Gish (narrator)

Price: $85.00

Publisher: [Tokyo?], Toshiba Corporation Project Team: [1989]

Seller ID: 18928

ISBN: NO

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

[light surface wear and mild rubbing to covers]. (B&W and color photographs, advertisements) Elaborate program for a special presentation in Japan of D.W. Griffith's 1916 masterpiece INTOLERANCE, with musical accompaniment provided by the New Japan Philharmonic and a "Chorus/Special Choir for INTOLERANCE." The screening of the film was accompanied by "An Homage to D.W. Griffith," a 70mm Super Panavision production (projected at 30 frames per second) that was directed by American special effects cinematography wizard Richard Edlund, A.S.C. and featured a narration by the then 95-year-old Lill...
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Grierson on Documentary

By: {Grierson, John} Hardy, Forsyth, ed., with American notes by Richard Griffith and Mary Losey

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company: (c.1947)

Seller ID: 23677

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

[very slight bumping to a couple of corners, light age-toning to top edge of text block; jacket moderately worn at edges and extremities, front panel a little rubbed]. A collection of the film writings of the pioneer British documentarian John Grierson.
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Category: Cinema: History