The History of the British Film 1906-1914

(price-clipped) [shelfwear to lower edges of covers, slight fraying to cloth at top of spine and upper corners, one-time owner's tiny signature at top of front endpaper; jacket shows a bit of paper loss at all lower extremities, 1.5-inch split at top rear hinge and associated creasing at upper right corner of rear panel]. (B&W photographs) "This book tells of the social, commercial and artistic developments which took place in the British film industry between 1906 and the beginning of the first World War. This second volume [in the series] consists of two parts. In the first are treated the size and composition of the audience, the growth of the picture palace and the early circuits, the early struggles of labour and trade organisations, controversy over Sunday Opening and the educational use of the film, censorship, the beginning of special legislation affecting the cinema and other matters of sociological interest, as well as a long chapter concerning the companies and personalities in British film production. The second and major part consists of an account of the content and treatment of British factual, comic and dramatic films of the time; an analysis of the aesthetic development of the film; and a detailed analysis of the three major British feature films of the period which are still in existence." (Those three films are: RICHARD III (1911); EAST LYNNE (1913); and DAVID COPPERFIELD (1913). Each is illustrated by frame blow-ups.)

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Publisher: George Allen & Unwin Ltd.

Year: 1949

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

First Edition

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