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Stars of the Movies and Featured Players

By: N/A

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Hollywood, The Hollywood Publicity Company, Inc.: (c.1927)

Seller ID: 22633

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Poor

[pretty beat-up, suitable for reference/research use only; rear cover detached, paper loss at corners of front cover and also corners of first few pages, water-staining to the rear endpapers (and affecting to some degree the last one-third or so of the book); on the bright side, there do not appear to be any missing pages]. (B&W photographs) Full-page portraits of 250 actors and actresses of the late silent era, arranged alphabetically.
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The Hollywood Reporter (March 30, 1935, Section 2): 4th Annual Writers Number 1935

By: N/A

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Hollywood, The Wilkerson Daily Corp., Ltd.: 1935

Seller ID: 22636

Binding: Periodical

Condition: Near Fine

[minor edgewear to covers, slight fading along bottom edge of front cover]. (advertisements) This special "Writers Number" of the erstwhile Hollywood trade paper features 22 short pieces of various types -- stories, playlets, mini-essays, anecdotes, humorous jibes, etc. -- contributed by both prominent and not-so-prominent screenwriters (or, in some cases, regular writers in town to scoop up some of that easy movie money). Featured writers include Philip Wylie, Nunnally Johnson, Edward Chodorov, Ralph Block, Melvin Levy, George Seaton & Robert Pirosh, Dwight Taylor, and Edwin Knopf. ...
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2nd Annual Festival of Preservation / July 7-30, 1989

By: (UCLA Film and Television Archive)

Price: $8.00

Publisher: [Los Angeles], UCLA Film and Television Archive: 1989

Seller ID: 10220

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

[very minor handling wear, tiny tear at base of spine]. (B&W/color photographs) Program book for the annual festival held at UCLA to highlight their film/TV archive's recent preservation activities. Includes several pages of information about the Archive, and about film and TV preservation generally. The remainder of the book is devoted to program notes on the individual films in the festival, including: HELL'S ANGELS (1930); THE QUIET MAN (1952); THE SIGN OF THE CROSS (1932); THE BAT (1926); VIENNESE NIGHTS (1930); UNDER A TEXAS MOON (1930); THE SMILING LIEUTENANT (1931); THE SCOUNDREL (1935...
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The Ninth Festival of Preservation / Aug. 1-29, 1998

By: (UCLA Film and Television Archive)

Price: $8.00

Publisher: [Los Angeles], UCLA Film and Television Archive: 1998

Seller ID: 10225

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

[nice clean copy, faint edgewear]. (B&W photographs) Nicely-produced program book for the annual festival held at UCLA to highlight their film/TV archive's recent preservation activities, containing program notes for the individual films in the festival, including: JOAN OF ARC (1948); STAGECOACH (1939); DARK COMMAND (1940); THE FRESHMAN (1925); MACBET (1948); THE MYSTERIOUS DR. FU MANCHU (1929); DEATH TAKES A HOLIDAY (1934); LILIOM (1930); THUNDERBOLT (1929); SHOCK CORRIDOR (1963): HOLLOW TRIUMPH (1948); LOST HORIZON (1937); BALL OF FIRE (1941); THE SOUTHERNER (1945); many others. There were ...
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The Tenth Festival of Preservation / July 28 - August 26, 2000

By: (UCLA Film and Television Archive)

Price: $8.00

Publisher: [Los Angeles], UCLA Film and Television Archive: 2000

Seller ID: 10226

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Fine

[very nice copy, clean and bright with no discernible wear] (B&W photographs) Nicely-produced program book for the annual festival held at UCLA to highlight their film/TV archive's recent preservation activities, containing program notes for the individual films in the festival, including: THE TIMES OF HARVEY MILK (1984); THE POWER AND THE GLORY (1933); DAUGHTER OF THE DRAGON (1931); MOLLY O' (1921); FEET FIRST (1930); THE NAKED KISS (1964); THE PRISONER OF ZENDA (1937); CHEERS FOR MISS BISHOP (1941); HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY (1941); THE INFORMER (1935); NOAH'S ARK (1928); BODY AND SOUL (1947)...
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The Eighth Annual Festival of Preservation / June 27 - July 20, 1996

By: (UCLA Film and Television Archive)

Price: $7.00

Publisher: [Los Angeles], UCLA Film and Television Archive: 1996

Seller ID: 10454

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

[nice clean copy, mild edge & surface wear]. (B&W photographs) Program book for the annual festival held at UCLA to highlight their film/TV archive's recent preservation activities, containing program notes for the individual films in the festival, including: GILDA (1946; the cover image is also from this film, with Rita Hayworth); DESIGN FOR LIVING (1933); FEAR AND DESIRE (1953, Stanley Kubrick's first film); ROMOLA (1924); THE UNHOLY THREE (1930); ONE TOUCH OF VENUS (1948); SPEEDY (1928); SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE SECRET WEAPON (1942); and numerous others. There was also a program devoted to...
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The Sixth Annual Festival of Preservation / April 7 - May 1, 1994

By: (UCLA Film and Television Archive)

Price: $7.00

Publisher: [Los Angeles], UCLA Film and Television Archive: 1994

Seller ID: 14322

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

[nice clean copy, very minor fingertip creases in front cover]. (B&W photographs) Program book for the annual festival held at UCLA to highlight their film/TV archive's preservation activities, containing program notes for the individual films in the festival, including: THE SEA HAWK (1924); two features by Cecil B. DeMille (THE PLAINSMAN and THIS DAY AND AGE); THE SPIDER (1931), co-directed by William Cameron Menzies; APPLAUSE (Rouben Mamoulian, 1929); two Frank Capra features, MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON (1939) and SUBMARINE (1928); a program of early TV films featuring James Dean; THE JUNG...
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Fourth Annual Festival of Preservation / July 10-27, 1991

By: (UCLA Film and Television Archive)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: [Los Angeles], UCLA Film and Television Archive: 1991

Seller ID: 17009

ISBN: NO

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

[light handling wear, slightly warped/bent]. (B&W photographs) Program book for the annual festival held at UCLA to highlight their film/TV archive's recent preservation activities, containing erudite program notes for the individual films in the festival, including: DR. MABUSE, THE GREAT GAMBLER (1922); THE INFORMER (1935); LOVE AFFAIR (1939); HISTORY IS MADE AT NIGHT (1937); STRANGE IMPERSONATION (1946); CHAMPION (1949); VAGABOND KING (1930); DOCTOR X (1932); HOLIDAY (1938); and numerous others. There were also special programs devoted to: the Hearst Metrotone News Collection; animated film...
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The 13th Festival of Preservation / July 20 - August 19, 2006

By: (UCLA Film and Television Archive)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: [Los Angeles], UCLA Film and Television Archive: 2006

Seller ID: 22907

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Fine

[very nice copy, clean and bright with no discernible wear] (B&W photographs) Program book for the annual festival held at UCLA to highlight their film/TV archive's recent preservation activities, containing program notes for the individual films in the festival, including: OF MICE AND MEN (Lewis Milestone, 1939); BABY DOLL (Elia Kazan, 1956); GOD'S LITTLE ACRE (Anthony Mann, 1958); THE RED KIMONA (Walter Lang, 1925); CLOAK AND DAGGER (Fritz Lang, 1946); WAY OUT WEST (with Laurel & Hardy, 1937); TOPPER (Norman Z. McLeod, 1937); THE BIG COMBO (Joseph H. Lewis, 1955); MACBETH (Orson Welles, 194...
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The Extortionists [SIGNED]

By: Aller, Herbert

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Beverly Hills CA, Guild-Hartford Publishing Co.: (c.1972)

Seller ID: 24626

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

[good solid copy, binding tight and firm, light stain at top of spine, mild edgewear to covers, a little schmutz on the rear cover]. Mass Market PB SIGNED by the author on the title page. As business representative for IATSE (the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees) for 35 years (1933-1968), Aller was an important figure in Hollywood labor circles, and was in the thick of the battle to take back control of the union from Chicago mobsters Willie Bioff and George Browne (the book's title refers to the pair, both of whom were eventually ousted from the union and sent to prison, ...
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Walt Disney Magic Moments

By: Arseni, Ercole, Leone Bosi and Massimo Marconi, eds.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Milan, Arnoldo Mondadori Editions: 1973

Seller ID: 13660

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

(pictorial boards; no dust jacket, as issued) [minor shelfwear, very light soiling to covers, tiny stain near top of front cover, one page in middle of book has come loose]. (B&W/color frame enlargements, photos) Following a very brief history of Disney's career, the book presents frame blow-up versions of ten Disney cartoons: PLANE CRAZY (1928); THE GALLOPIN' GAUCHO (1929); FLOWERS AND TREES (1932); ORPHANS' BENEFIT (1934); PLUTO'S JUDGMENT DAY (1935); MICKEY'S RIVAL (1936); DON DONALD (1936); DONALD'S NEPHEWS (1938); BRAVE LITTLE TAILOR (1938); FERDINAND THE BULL (1938)
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Hollywood, with "Bugs" Baer and Henry Major [SIGNED]

By: Baer, "Bugs," and Henry Major

Price: $300.00

Publisher: (n.p.), Henry Major: (c.1938)

Seller ID: 20363

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

(no dust jacket, as issued) [light shelfwear, a touch of fraying to cloth at upper right corner of front cover]. (caricature sketches) Over 200 full-page caricature sketches of movie people (mostly actors, with an occasional director, writer or local Hollywood character tossed in) by Henry Major, with "Bugs" Baer contributing the captions, which range from moderately clever (Bette Davis: "The discoverer of perpetual emotion.") to corny (Walt Disney: "He gave them all a Mickey.") to just plain weird (Dolores Del Rio: "Only a great artiste can freeze in a blizzard of talcum powder." What does ...
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Histoire en 1000 images du cinema; collection dirigee par Robin Livio

By: Bessy, Maurice

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Paris, Editions Du Pont Royal: 1962

Seller ID: 3039

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

(illustrated boards; no dust jacket) [heavily worn at corners; spine repaired with clear tape (binding of pages is solid)]. (B&W photographs) 1,000 images (they're numbered) illustrating the development of the cinema from Egyptian wall paintings through LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD; text and captions in French.
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Les Truquages au Cinema

By: Bessy, Maurice

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Paris, Les Editions Prisma: (c.1951)

Seller ID: 5080

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

(tan decorated buckram; no dust jacket) [moderate shelfwear, bottom corner of front cover bumped and slightly fraying, top corners slightly bumped; mild soiling to covers; binding solid, text clean,previous owner's signature on title page]. (B&W photographs, drawings) Profusely-illustrated treatise on the history and techniques of special effects in the cinema; text in French. Preface (also in French) by Orson Welles. The last section, "Les Films a Trucs," discusses how certain special effects were achieved in KING KONG, THE INVISIBLE MAN, THE THIEF OF BAGDAD, TOPPER, DOCTOR CYCLOPS, T...
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M-G-M: Hollywood's Greatest Backlot

By: Bingen, Steven, Stephen X. Sylvester, and Michael Troyan

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Solana Beach CA, Santa Monica Press: (c.2011)

Seller ID: 24769

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

1595800557 [nice copy, only blemish to book is a faint stain on the bottom edge of the text block (the sort of thing you'd never have noticed if I hadn't pointed it out); the jacket shows just a touch of handling wear]. (B&W photographs, facsimiles) A different sort of movie-studio history, focusing not on the corporate history or even the films as such, but specifically "an illustrated history of the soundstages and outdoor sets where Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer produced many of the world's most famous films." A delight to browse through, the book makes the point vividly that the old Hollywo...
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American Film Acting: The Stanislavski Heritage

By: Blum, Richard A.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Ann Arbor/London, UMI Research Press: (c.1984)

Seller ID: 25298

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

[a couple of tiny scuff marks on front cover, otherwise virtually as new] (Studies in Cinema, No. 28) Series Trade PB (B&W photographs) "In this book -- the first to examine the impact of [Constantin] Stanislavski's system on American film acting -- [the author] follows the development of acting theory and practice in America from the New York pictorial stage of the 1920s to the Hollywood sound stage of the 1980s. He traces the work of Richard Boleslavsky and Maria Ouspenskaya at the American Lab Theatre; Lee Strasberg and the Group Theatre of the 1930s; Elia Kazan and the Actor's Studio ...
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The Art of Film Music [SIGNED]

By: Burt, George

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Boston, Northeastern University Press: (c.1994)

Seller ID: 18139

ISBN: 1-55553-193-8

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[lightly bumped at bottom corners (both book and jacket), no other significant wear]. (musical examples) INSCRIBED ("Dear Richard / With admiration / and much gratitude for / your help") and SIGNED (first name only) by the author on the ffep. The author, a music professor and film composer, "explores music's significant role and powerful effect by analyzing several scenes in classic films produced from the 1930s through the 1980s. His thorough examination of the practical and aesthetic aspects of scoring a film is richly illustrated by the personal perspectives of such renowned c...
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All That Hollywood Allows: Re-reading Gender in 1950s Melodrama

By: Byars, Jackie

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Chapel Hill/London, University of North Carolina Press: (c.1991)

Seller ID: 14589

ISBN: 0-8078-1953-0

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice clean copy, extremely light shelfwear to book; very minor surface wear to jacket (others would call it Fine/Fine without blinking, but I'm picky)]. (Gender & American Culture) Series (B&W photographs) This book "explores the representation of gender in popular Hollywood melodramas of the 1950s, the last decade in which film enjoyed a pivotal cultural position. Both a work of feminist film criticism and theory and an analysis of popular culture, this provocative book examines from a cultural studies perspective the top-grossing film melodramas of that decade, including A STREETCAR N...
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Chilean Cinema

By: Chanan, Michael, ed.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: London, British Film Institute: 1976

Seller ID: 21974

ISBN: 0851700586

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

[nice clean copy, extremely light handling wear]. Trade PB Issued in conjunction with a BFI retrospective of Chilean cinema. Following an introduction discussing the historical background of the cinema in Chile, there are interviews with four filmmakers: Raul Ruiz, Helvio Soto, Miguel Littin, and Armand Mattelart. There are appendixes presenting a document, "Manifesto of the Film Makers' Committee of Support for Popular Unity," and three press reports; plus a filmography, and a bibliography.
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Antitrust in the Motion Picture Industry: Economic and Legal Analysis

By: Conant, Michael

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Berkeley/Los Angeles, University of California Press: 1960

Seller ID: 25509

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

(no dust jacket) [nice clean book with just some faint wear to covers and extremities] (Publications of the Bureau of Business and Economic Research, University of California) Series (tables) "This study in industrial economics and antitrust law succinctly outines the history of the industry and the peculiarities of the services it provides. [Such a nice way of putting it!] The author describes changing marketing methods; tendencies to vertical integration of production, distribution, and exhibition; means of achieving monopoly power; and balances of strength in the different sectors whi...
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Category: Cinema: History