Variety Obituaries: 1948-1956
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Page : pages
File Size : 22,73 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Entertainers
ISBN : 9780824008352
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Page : pages
File Size : 22,73 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Entertainers
ISBN : 9780824008352
Author : Michael Kaplan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 28,84 MB
Release : 1988-02-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780824008383
First published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Jeb H. Perry
Publisher : Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 27,73 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Author : Timothy S. Susanin
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 17,65 MB
Release : 2011-06-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1626744564
For ten years before the creation of Mickey Mouse, Walt Disney struggled with, failed at, and eventually mastered the art and business of animation. Most biographies of his career begin in 1928, when Steamboat Willie was released. That first Disney Studio cartoon with synchronized sound made its main character—Mickey Mouse—an icon for generations. But Steamboat Willie was neither Disney's first cartoon nor Mickey Mouse's first appearance. Prior to this groundbreaking achievement, Walt Disney worked in a variety of venues and studios, refining what would become known as the Disney style. In Walt before Mickey: Disney's Early Years, 1919–1928, Timothy Susanin creates a portrait of the artist from age seventeen to the cusp of his international renown. After serving in the Red Cross in France after World War I, Walt Disney worked for advertising and commercial art in Kansas City. Walt used these experiences to create four studios—Kaycee Studios, Laugh-O-gram Films, Disney Brothers Studio, and Walt Disney Studio. Using company documents, private correspondence between Walt and his brother Roy, contemporary newspaper accounts, and new interviews with Disney's associates, Susanin traces Disney's path. The author shows Disney to be a complicated, resourceful man, especially during his early career. Walt before Mickey, a critical biography of a man at a crucial juncture, provides the “missing decade” that started Walt Disney's career and gave him the skills to become a name known worldwide.
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Page : 454 pages
File Size : 26,86 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Books
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Author : David Weinstein
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 43,23 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9781592134991
"The heart of David Weinstein's book examines DuMont's programs and personalities, including Dennis James, Captain Video, Morey Amsterdam, Jackie Gleason and The Honeymooners, Ernie Kovacs, and Rocky King, Detective. Weinstein uses rare kinescopes, archival photographs, exclusive interviews, trade journal articles, and corporate documents to tell the story of a "forgotten network" that helped invent the very business of network television."--Jacket.
Author : Ryan Ellett
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 41,31 MB
Release : 2017-11-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1476629803
More than 700 uncredited scriptwriters who created the memorable characters and thrilling stories of radio's Golden Age receive due recognition in this reference work. For some, radio was a stepping stone on the way to greater achievements in film or television, on the stage or in literature. For others, it was the culmination of a life spent writing newspaper copy. Established authors dabbled in radio as a new medium, while working writers saw it as another opportunity to earn a paycheck. When these men and women came to broadcasting, they crafted a body of work still appreciated by modern listeners.
Author : Mark Miller
Publisher : Mercury Press (Canada)
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 33,63 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Singer, trumpeter and dancer. Child star, jazz pioneer and world traveller. Legend and myth. If Valaida Snowés life wasnét already sensational enough, she sensationalized it further, freely evading and embellishing the truth of her triumphs, trials and tribulations. But even after her life has been measured against the historical record, it remains a grand and compelling tale, and Valaida herself a grand and compelling figure.
Author : Douglas Gomery
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 655 pages
File Size : 48,34 MB
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1839020202
Despite being one of the biggest industries in the United States, indeed the World, the internal workings of the 'dream factory' that is Hollywood is little understood outside the business. The Hollywood Studio System: A History is the first book to describe and analyse the complete development, classic operation, and reinvention of the global corporate entitles which produce and distribute most of the films we watch. Starting in 1920, Adolph Zukor, Head of Paramount Pictures, over the decade of the 1920s helped to fashion Hollywood into a vertically integrated system, a set of economic innovations which was firmly in place by 1930. For the next three decades, the movie industry in the United States and the rest of the world operated by according to these principles. Cultural, social and economic changes ensured the dernise of this system after the Second World War. A new way to run Hollywood was required. Beginning in 1962, Lew Wasserman of Universal Studios emerged as the key innovator in creating a second studio system. He realized that creating a global media conglomerate was more important than simply being vertically integrated. Gomery's history tells the story of a 'tale of two systems 'using primary materials from a score of archives across the United States as well as a close reading of both the business and trade press of the time. Together with a range of photographs never before published the book also features over 150 box features illuminating aspect of the business.
Author : Tim J. Anderson
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 19,25 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Music
ISBN : 0816645183
Studie over hoe de moderne opname- en geluidstechnieken van na de oorlog in de Verenigde Staten het idioom van de populaire muziek, inclusief beeldvorming en appreciatie, ingrijpend hebben gewijzigd.