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The Complete History of the Discovery of Cinematography
J.L. Schneider's Movie Studio History Site
U.S.A.A.F. First Motion Picture Unit [1942-45]
Prof. Yahnke's Online Cinema History
Early Cinema website
Midnight Palace - old movies, classic & obscure 1900-1955
"Film & History" [est. 1970] journal
German-langauge silent movie postcards website
DMZ's 'Classic Hollywood Biographies' website

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Time Magazine's list of the 'All-TIME Best 100 Films'
Who's Who of Victorian Cinema

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History  of  The  Cinema

	"Cinema: Year By Year, 1894-2005" [2005] Edited by David Thomson & others DK Publng 7-pound hardcover [8/2005] for $31.50 1894-2004 edition by Robyn Karney & others DK Publng 7-pound hardcover [8/2004] out of print/used
	"Before Hollywood: From Shadow Play To The Silver Screen" [2005] by Paul Clee Clarion Books 9x9 pb [8/2005] for $14.96
	"A Short History of The Movies" [orig 1979; 9th edition 2005] by Gerald Mast & Bruce F. Kawin Longman 8¾x7½ pb [3/2005] for $72.00
	"The Story of Film: A Worldwide History of Film" [2004] by Mark Cousins (host of the B.B.C.'s 'Scene By Scene') Thunder's Mouth Press 9x6¼ pb [9/2006] for $18.21 Thunder's Mouth Press 9½x6¾ hardcover [8/2004] for $30.36
	"Revolution!: The Explosion of World Cinema In The Sixties" [2004] by Peter Cowie Faber & Faber 9x5¾ pb [6/2005] for $9.75 Faber & Faber 9¾x6½ hardcover [6/2004] for $25.00
	"Cinema Nation: The Best Writing On Film From The Nation, 1913-2000" [2000] Edited by Carl Bromley Thunder's Mouth Press 9x6 pb [10/2000] for $16.95
	"Cinematic Century: An Intimate Diary of America's Affair With The Movies" [2000] by Harry Haun The author shares his vast knowledge of movie facts, anecdotes & gossip. Applause Books 11x8½ pb [2/2000] for $25.95
	"Parallel Tracks: The Railroad & Silent Cinema" [1997] by Lynne Kirby Duke Univ Press 9¼x6 pb [6/97] for $23.95 Duke Univ Press 9½x6½ hardcover [12/97] for $84.95
	"The Oxford History of World Cinema" [1996] Edited by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith Oxford Univ Press pb [2/99] for $20.97 Oxford Univ Press hardcover [11/96] for $55.00
	"Who's Who of Victorian Cinema: A Worldwide Survey" [1996] Edited by Stephen Herbert & Luke McKernan British Film Institute 9¼x6½ hardcover [10/96] out of print/used companion website
	"The History of Film" (World of Art Series) [1996] by David Parkinson Thames & Hudson 8¼x6 pb [1/96] for $11.53
	"100 Years of Cinema" {posters} [1995] Compiled by Bruce Hershenson self-published 10½x8¼ pb [5/99] for $20.00 self-published hardcover [10/95] not available online more posters on the Magic Lantern Movie Posters Page
	"Film History: An Introduction" [1994] by Kristin Thompson & David Bordwell McGraw-Hill 2nd edition pb [9/2002] for $68.78 McGraw-Hill 1st edition 10x8 pb [2/94] for $69.37
	"Kisses" [1991] Edited by Lena Tabori Without explanatory text: still photos & credits & dialogue text Citadel Press/Turner 14½x10¾ hardcover book & video [1/91] out of print/used
	"The Liveliest Art: A Panoramic History of The Movies" [orig 1957; rev 1978] by Arthur Knight Signet pb [3/79] out of print/used Signet mass pb [3/79] out of print/used Scribner's hardcover [4/78] out of print/used

Pioneers  of  the  Cinema
Dorothy Arzner • Theodore W. Case • George Eastman • Thomas Alva Edison
Wm. Friese-Greene • Thomas H. Ince • Louis Le Prince • Harold Lloyd • Lumière Brothers
Georges Méliès • Oscar Micheaux • Eadweard Muybridge • Edwin S. Porter • Hal Roach
Mack Sennett • Wm. Desmond Taylor • Erich von Stroheim • and others...
now on their own page

...plus individual pages for

Charlie Chaplin [1889-1977]

Sergei M. Eisenstein [1898-1948]

D.W. Griffith [1875-1948]

Buster Keaton [1895-1966]

King Vidor [1894-1982]

Important  Dates  in  the  History of  Cinema  (and other media) 1630 Feb 22nd: Popcorn was introduced to the English colonists by Quadequina, brother of Massasoit. 1875 Jan 22nd: Birthday of cinema pioneer D.W. Griffith; he died in 1948. 1877 June 4th: Patent application for the variable resistence carbon microphone filed by Emile Berliner. 1877 Nov 21st: Inventor Thomas Alva Edison announced that he had invented the phonograph. 1878 Feb 19th: Edison received a patent for his phonograph. 1885 March 26th: Eastman Dry Plate & Film Company of Rochester, NY manufactured the first commercial motion picture film. 1888 Sept 4th: George Eastman received a patent for his roll-film camera, and registered the Kodak trademark. 1889 April 16th: Birthday of silent film star Charles Chaplin; he died in 1977. 1890 Setp 16th: Disappearance of Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince in Dijon, France before he could demonstrate his 60mm/12fps motion picture camera system to the public. 1891 Aug 24th: Edison filed patents for the Kinetograph 35mm camera & the Kinetoscope viewer. 1893 Feb 1st: Edison completed work on the world's first motion picture studio in West Orange, NJ. 1893 May 9th: First public demonstration of Edison's Kinetoscope in Brooklyn, NY. 1894 Feb 1st: Birthday of film director John Ford; he died in 1973. 1895 March 22nd: First public showing of a movie by the Lumière Brothers in Paris, France. 1895 Oct 4th: Birthday of film comic Buster Keaton in Piqua, Kamsas; he died in 1966. 1895 Dec 28th: First public exhibition of movies to a paying audience, a selection of ten Lumière Brothers single-reel films at a café in Paris, France. 1896 April 20th: The first time people paid to see a movie in the United States, at Koster & Bial's Music Hall in New York City. 1896 April 23rd: First public demonstration of Vitagraph movie projection system, in New York City. 1896 July 26th: Opening of the first motion picture theatre in the United States, Vitascope Hall in New Orleans, Louisiana (the site is now a Burger King). 1897 May 18th: Birthday of producer-director Frank Capra; he died in 1991. 1898 Aug 29th: Birthday of filmmaker Preston Sturges; he died in 1959. 1901 Dec 5th: Birthday of Walter Elias Disney, in Chicago, Illinois; he died in 1966. 1902 April 2nd: First motion picture theater established, by Thomas L. Tally as part of a carnival in Los Angeles, CA. 1903 Dec 1st: Release of Edwin S. Porter's "The Great Train Robbery", the first movie with a dramatic plot, at New York City's Luban's Museum vaudeville theater. 1905 Dec 16th: Publication of the first issue of the entertainment weekly Variety. 1906 Aug 19th: Birthday of the inventor of television Philo T. Farnsworth in Utah; he died in 1971. 1910 March 23rd: Birthday of cinematic master Akira Kurosawa in Japan; he died in 1998. 1911 March 24th: Birthday of animator Joseph Barbera. 1912 Aug 12th = Birthday of writer-director Samuel Fuller; he died in 1997. 1914 Feb 13th: Founding of The American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers {A.S.C.A.P.}. 1915 Feb 8th: Premiere of D.W. Griffith's epic "The Birth of A Nation" in Los Angeles, CA. 1915 May 6th: Birthday of actor / filmmaker Orson Welles; he died in 1985. 1916 Sept 5th: Release of D.W. Griffith's "Intolerance". 1918 May 26th: Founding of Actors' Equity Association. 1922 Oct 18th: Opening of Hollywood's Egyptian Theatre, with the world premiere of "Robin Hood", starring Douglas Fairbanks. 1923 January: Opening of the world's first air-conditioned movie theater, Grauman's Metropolitan Theater in Downtown Los Angeles, CA. The equipment was installed by Willis Carrier. 1925 Feb 21st: Birthday of film director Sam Peckinpah; he died in 1984. 1926 Aug 6th: Warner Bros. premiered "Don Juan" in New York City, the first film using the Vitaphone sound-on-disc system (featuring music & sound effects). 1926 Aug 23rd: Silent film idol Rudolph Valentino died in New York City at age 31. 1927 May 4th: Founding of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. 1927 May 18th: Opening of Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, the world premiere of DeMille's silent epic "The King of Kings". 1927 Sept 23rd: Invention of all-electronic television by Philo T. Farnsworth. 1927 Oct 6th: Talking pictures arrived with the opening of "The Jazz Singer", starring Al Jolson; the movie featured both silent and synchronous-sound scenes. 1928 March 12th: Release of "The Treasurer's Report", a hilarious short starring Robert Benchley, which is actually the first ALL-sound movie in general release. 1928 July 6th: New York City preview screening of the first all-talking feature film, "The Lights of New York". 1928 Nov 18th: The first successful synchronous sound animated cartoon premiered in New York City - Walt Disney's "Steamboat Willie", starring Mickey Mouse. 1929 May 16th: First Academy Awards banquet. 1929 May 28th: Premiere of the first all-color talking picture, "On With The Show!" in New York City. 1932 July 30th: Release of the first 3-strip Technicolor short animated film, Walt Disney's "Flowers & Trees". 1933 March 2: The motion picture "King Kong" had its world premiere in New York City, becoming the highest grossing film of 1933. 1933 May 27th: Release of the Academy Award-winning short feature "The Three Little Pigs" by Walt Disney. 1933 June 6th: Opening of the first drive-in movie theater, in Camden, NJ. 1935 June 13th: Release of "Becky Sharp", the first feature-length three-color film. 1937 Dec 21st: Release of the first Technicolor™ animated feature film, Walt Disney's "Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs". 1938 April 30th: Official debut of Warner Bros. cartoon character Bugs Bunny. 1939 Dec 15th: Premiere of "Gone With The Wind" in Atlanta, GA. 1940 Feb 29th: "Gone With The Wind" won 8 Academy Awards, including Best Picture of 1939. 1940 July 27th: Bugs Bunny's debut, in the Warner Bros. cartoon "A Wild Hare". 1940 Nov 12th: Release of Walt Disney's "Fantasia", animated interpretations of classical music conducted by Leopold Stokowski. 1941 May 1st: Premiere of Orson Welles's masterpiece "Citizen Kane" at the R.K.O. Palace Theatre in New York City. 1942 Nov 26th: World premiere of "Casablanca", starring Humphrey Bogart & Ingrid Bergman, at the Hollywood Theater in New York City. 1947 Feb 21st: First public demonstration of Polaroid camera & film at Optical Society of America by Dr. Edwin Land. 1948 May 3rd: U.S. Supreme Court handed down a unanimous decision in 'U.S. vs. Paramount Pictures' ordering America's motion picture studios to divest themselves of their ownership in movie theaters. This became known as the infamous 'consent decree'. 1948 June 18th: Columbia Records publicly unveiled its new long-playing ['LP'] phonograph record in New York City. 1952 Sept 30th: Premiere of "This Is Cinerama", at the Broadway Theater in New York City, introducing the three-camera, triple-projector wide-screen Cinerama™ process. 1953 March 19th: Academy Awards ceremony televised for the first time. 1953 April 10th: Premier in New York City of the Warner Bros. 3-D horror movie "House of Wax", starring Vincent Price. 1953 Sept 16th: World premiere of "The Robe", the first movie filmed in the CinemaScope™ wide-screen process, at the Roxy Theater in New York City. 1955 Jan: Andrzej Wajda's "Pokolenie (A Generation)" began the independent Polish Film School movement. 1955 July 17th: Opening of Disneyland in Anaheim, CA. Admission then was $1 for adults, kids were 50¢ (plus ride tickets); admission today is $53 for adults and $43 for children.} 1955 Sept 30th: Actor James Dean was killed in a two-car collision on a rural highway in California. 1955 Oct 27th: Release of Nicholas Ray's "Rebel Without A Cause", starring James Dean. 1956 March 21st: Release of "Rock Around The Clock", the first full-length rock & roll movie, featuring the hit song by Bill Haley & the Comets.    1956 April 14th: Ampex Corp. demonstrated its first commercial videotape recorder. 1957 March 20th: Birthday of director/producer Spike Lee 1959 Jan: Claude Chabrol's "Le Beau Serge" began the French New Wave movement. 1966 May: Volker Schlöndorff's "Young Törless" began the New German Cinema movement. 1966 Dec 15th: Walt Disney died in Los Angeles, CA at age 65. 1968 April 2nd: Release of "2001: A Space Odyssey", directed by Stanley Kubrick. 1968 Oct 7th: The Motion Picture Assn. of America adopted the film-rating system. 1971 Oct 1st: Opening of Walt Disney World in Orlando, FL. 1977 May 25th: Release of the first "Star Wars" movie – 'Episode IV: A New Hope'. 1979 Aug 15th: Premiere of "Apocalypse Now". 1988 March 7th: Beginning of the W.G.A. writers strike, which lasted 5 months. 1988 Aug 7th: End of the W.G.A. writers strike. 1990 Dec 21st: Buchwald v. Paramount decision in California, after which all script submissions are strictly limited to those vetted by Hollywood insiders. 1997 Dec 19th: USA release of James Cameron's "Titanic", which eventually gained all-time first place in worldwide box-office gross revenue (nearly twice #2, the first Harry Potter movie). 2001 Aug 15th: Re-release of 1979's "Apocalypse Now" with never-before-seen 49 minutes added, as "Apocalypse Now Redux". 2002 March 25th: Walt Disney Co. laid off over 200 artists & animators and closed down their hand-animation department to focus on computer-animation films, ending the studio's tradition of hand-drawn animation. 2007 Nov 5th: Beginning of the W.G.A. writers strike, over residuals for new media. 2008 Feb 12: Writers Guild of America strike ended (lasting just over three months). 2008 March 29: The board of directors of A.F.T.R.A. voted to end their rocky 27-year merger with the Screen Actors Guild.

Videos  &  DVDs

"Hollywood: A Celebration of the American Silent Film" [HBO 1980]
Written & directed by David Gill & Kevin Brownlow, narration by James Mason

complete box set HBO b&w/color VHS [10/2001] 13 tapes - out of prodn/rare full credits from IMDb Vol. 1: "The Pioneers" HBO VHS [6/98] out of prodn/used Vol. 2: "In The Beginning" HBO VHS [6/98] out of prodn/used Vol. 3: "Single Beds & Double Standards" HBO VHS [6/98] out of prodn/used Vol. 4: "Hollywood Goes To War" HBO VHS [6/98] out of prodn/used Vol. 5: "Hazard of The Game" HBO VHS [6/98] out of prodn/used Vol. 6: "Swanson & Valentino" HBO VHS [6/98] out of prodn/used Vol. 7: "The Autocrats" HBO VHS [6/98] out of prodn/used Vol. 8: "Comedy - A Serious Business" HBO VHS [6/98] out of prodn/used Vol. 9: "Out West" HBO VHS [6/98] out of prodn/used Vol. 10: "The Man With The Megaphone" HBO VHS [6/98] out of prodn/used Vol. 11: "Trick of The Light" HBO VHS [6/98] out of prodn/used Vol. 12: "Star Treatment" HBO VHS [6/98] out of prodn/used Vol. 13: "End of An Era" HBO VHS [6/98] out of prodn/used

"Treasures From American Film Archives" [2000-2007] Volume I [2000] 50 preserved films, 1893-1985 Image Ent. b&w/color DVD box set [10/2000] 4 disks - out of prodn/used "Encore Edition" [2005] second edition of Volume I Image Ent. b&w/color DVD box set [5/2005] 4 disks for $69.95 "More Treasures ... 1894-1931" [2004] 50 preserved films Image Ent. b&w/color DVD box set [9/2004] 4 disks for $79.95 "Treasures III: Social Issues In American Film, 1900-1934" [2007]   Image Ent. b&w/color DVD box set [10/2007] 4 disks for $80.99

	"Saved From The Flames: 54 Rare & Restored Films, 1896-1944" [2008] Flicker Alley DVD set [1/2008] 3 disks for $49.95 54 short films, including films created by Segundo de Chomon, D.W. Griffith, Thomas Ince, Ub Iwerks, Lumière, Georges Méliès, Georges Mendel, George Pal, puppetmaster Tony Sarg, Mack Sennett, Gaston Velle & Lois Weber; performances by Louis Armstrong, Charlie Chaplin, Duke Ellington, Stan Laurel, Laurel & Hardy, Django Reinhardt, Michel Simon & Jacques Tati; plus the 1900 color & sound film "Cyrano de Bergerac" [1900] directed by Clément Maurice
	"Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant Garde Film, 1894-1941" [2005 box set] from Anthology Film Archives, produced by David Shepard Image Ent. b&w DVD set [10/2005] 7 disks for $79.99 official movie site
	"The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of The Latino Image In American Cinema" [2002 documentary film] A film by Susan Racho, Nancy De Los Santos & Alberto Dominguez Questar color DVD [1/2003] for $22.99 Questar color VHS [1/2003] out of prodn/used full credits at IMDb official movie site • Teachers Guide site
	"Slapstick Encyclopedia, 1909-1927" [2002] Curated by film historians David Shepard & Joe Adamson Image Ent. b&w DVD [4/2002] 5 disks for $62.99 includes 53 complete shorts plus snippets, from directors & comedians Fatty Arbuckle, Monty Banks, Charley Bowers, Charlie Chaplin, Oliver Hardy, Buster Keaton, Harry Langdon, Stan Laurel, Harold Lloyd, Hal Roach, Will Rogers, Larry Semon, Mack Sennett, Ben Turpin, & Bert Williams
	"The Movies Begin: A Treasury of Early Cinema 1894-1913" [2002] Kino Intl b&w DVD [2/2002] 5 disks for $89.96     Kino Intl b&w VHS [2/2002] 5 tapes for $94.95
	"The Origins of Film" box set [2001] from the Library of Congress & The Smithsonian Image Ent b&w DVD [3/2001] 3 disks for $71.99
	"Hispanic Hollywood" docu feature [2000] and "Fiesta" [1941] Passport color DVD [5/2000] for $12.99 Passport color VHS [5/2000] 2 tapes / out of prodn/used documentary not listed at IMDb "Fiesta" musical film [Hal Roach/United Artists Nov 1941] Produced, directed & choreographed by LeRoy Prinz; starring Anne Ayars, Jorge Negrete, George Givot, Armida, Antonio Moreno, José Arias & the Guadalajara Trio full credits at IMDb
	"Golden Age of Silent Films" box set [1998] Marathon b&w VHS [8/98] 7 tapes - out of prodn/used includes John Barrymore in "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" [1920], Douglas Fairbanks in "The Mark of Zorro" [1920], Mary Pickford in "Pollyanna" [1920], Rudolph Vantino in "Blood and Sand" [1922], Lon Chaney in "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" [1923], Charlie Chaplin in "The Gold Rush" [1925] & Buster Keaton in "The General" [1927]
	"Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood" [Photoplay 1995 mini-series] Narrated by Kenneth Branagh Cinema Guild VHS [3/98] 3 tapes - out of stock/used Image Ent b&w/color DVD [5/2000] for $44.99 full credits from IMDb
	"American Cinema: One Hundred Years of Filmmaking" [P.B.S. 1995] Image Ent. Fox b&w/color DVD [8/2000] 2 disks out of prodn/used Fox b&w/color VHS [3/95] 5 tapes / out of prodn/used series credits at IMDb Directed by Alain Klarer; episodes include "The Hollywood Style", "The Star", "Romantic Comedy", "Film Noir", "The Studio System", "Film In The Television Age", "The Western", "The Combat Film", "The Film School Generation" & "The Edge of Hollywood"
	"Landmarks of Early Film" Volume 1 [1994] Image Ent b&w DVD [7/98] for $26.99 includes Edison Kinestoscope films (1894-96), films by the brothers Lumière (1895-97), films by French special effects pioneer Georges Méliès, documentary 'actualities' {1897-1910), and selected short films from 1903 to 1913 "Landmarks of Early Film, Volume 2: The Magic of Méliès" [1994] Image Ent b&w/color DVD [3/99] for $26.99 includes the documentary "Georges Melies: Cinema Magician" [1978] and 15 restored shorts

American  Film  Institute
100  Years  Celebration
now on a separate page

Books  About  Hollywood
&  Cinema  History

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Movies  About  Hollywood
&  Cinema  History

"The  Cat's  Meow"  [Lionsgate April 2002]

A version of events on Wm. Randolph's Hearst's yacht Oneida, during a star-studded party off the coast of California in November 1924, and the possible connection to the death of studio head Thomas H. Ince; real-life passengers included Hearst, his girlfriend actress Marion Davies, Charlie Chaplin, Ince, actress Margaret Livingston, columnist Louella Parsons, author Elinor Glyn and others. Directed by Peter Bogdanovich; script by Steven Peros, based on his stage play; starring Cary Elwes, Kirsten Dunst, Edward Herrmann, Eddie Izzard, Joanna Lumley, Jennifer Tilly, Claudia Harrison, Victor Slezak & James Laurenson Lionsgate widescreen color DVD [9/2003] for $12.99 Vidmark/Trimark color VHS [8/2002] out of prodn/used R.C.A. soundtrack CD [4/2002] out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb

"Chaplin"  [TriStar Dec 1992]

Lovingly made bio-film covering Charlie Chaplin's early life in England, his professional success and personal failures in Hollywood, and his exile in Switzerland. Produced & directed by Richard Attenborough; color cinematography by Sven Nykvist; starring Robert Downey Jr. {as Charlie}, Geraldine Chaplin, Paul Rhys, Moira Kelly, Anthony Hopkins, Penelope Ann Miller, Dan Aykroyd, Marisa Tomei, Kevin Kline, Maria Pitillo, Deborah Moore, Diane Lane & Nancy Travis; Oscar noms for Best Actor [RD], Best Original Score, Best Art Direction; won BAFTA for Best Actor [RD] Lions Gate letterbox-widescreen color DVD [5/98] for $10.99 Lions Gate widescreen color VHS [3/98] out of prodn/used Lions Gate color VHS [1/99] out of prodn/used Sony soundtrack CD by John Barry [12/92] for $9.98 full credits from IMDb • film entry at Wikipedia

'Perfect Charlie' film fansite • SM's film fansite

"The  Day  of  The  Locust"
[Paramount May 1975]

	Directed by John Schlesinger; starring Donald Sutherland, Karen Black, Burgess Meredith, William Atherton, Geraldine Page, Richard A. Dysart, Bo Hopkins, Pepe Serna, Lelia Goldoni & Billy Barty Paramount widescreen color DVD [6/2004] for $14.23 Paramount color VHS [6/93] out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb
	"The Day of The Locust" [Jan 1939 classic] by Nathanael West listed on Time Magazine's All-TIME 100 Novels (10/2005) NAL pb [9/83] for $5.95 Amereon hardcover [12/97] for $19.95 DH Audio ABR [9/87] 2 tapes out of print/used

"Gable  and  Lombard  [1976]
full credits from IMDb

"The  Great  Waldo  Pepper"
[Universal March 1975]

Too young to fly in World War I, Waldo barnstorms across America with veterans of combat, then gets a chance to prove his skills in aerial dogfights for the movies. Co-produced, co-written & directed by George Roy Hill; co-written by William Goldman; cinematography by Robert Surtees; music by Henry Mancini; starring Robert Redford, Bo Svenson, Bo Brundin, Susan Sarandon, Geoffrey Lewis, Edward Herrmann, Philip Bruns & Margot Kidder Goodtimes Home Video color DVD [7/98] out of prodn/used Universal color VHS [4/92] out of prodn/many used full credits from IMDb 11"x17" blue poster from Amazon for $9.99 11"x17" yellow poster (at left) from Amazon for $9.99 script with photographs, by William Goldman & George Roy Hill Dell mass pb [3/75] out of print/used

"Hollywoodland"  [2006]
full credits from IMDb; official movie site

"The  Last  Tycoon"  [Paramount Nov 1976]

A studio mogul (modeled after Irving Thalberg) fights for art against the mercenary executives in control of the studio, while distracted by a young actress who is an exact double of his deceased wife. Directed by Elia Kazan; script by Harold Pinter; starring Robert De Niro, Tony Curtis, Robert Mitchum, Jeanne Moreau, Jack Nicholson, Donald Pleasence & Ray Milland Paramount wudescreen color DVD [11/2003] for $9.98 Paramount color VHS [4/95] out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb 11"x17" movie poster available at AllPosters.com

"The Love of The Last Tycoon: A Western" [1941 classic, rev 1993] by F. Scott Fitzgerald [1896-1940]; edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli The classic unfinished novel about Hollywood. The version edited by Fitzgerald scholar Bruccoli restores the author's original intent. Scribner 8x5¼ pb [4/95] for $8.80 Cambridge Univ Press 8¾x5¾ hardcover [12/93] out of print/used

"Nickelodeon"  [1976]
full credits from IMDb

"R.K.O.  281"  tv movie [HBO/WGBH airdate Nov 1999]

The title is the production number for the filming of "Citizen Kane". After Wm. Randolph Hearst learned that Orson Welles was making a feature film that was a thinly-disguised and unflattering look at Hearst's life, the publishing tycoon and presidential hopeful used his power and influence to bury the picture. Directed by Benjamin Ross; starring Liev Schreiber {as Welles}, James Cromwell, Melanie Griffith, John Malkovich & Roy Scheider; nominated for 13 Emmy Awards, including Best TV Movie, Best Direction & Best Script, won 3 minor Emmies; won WGA Award for Best TV Script (tied) H.B.O. Home Video color DVD [4/2000] for $12.99 H.B.O. Home Video color VHS [3/2001] out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb

"Singin' In The Rain"
full credits from IMDb

"Sunset" [TriStar April 1988]

While working on a movie as technical advisor, real-life lawman Wyatt Earp teams with cowboy star Tom Mix to solve a murder at the Academy Awards ceremony in Beverly Hills. Co-written & directed by Blake Edwards, from a story by Rod Amateau; starring Bruce Willis, James Garner, Malcolm McDowell, Mariel Hemingway, Kathleen Quinlan, Jennifer Edwards, Patricia Hodge, Richard Bradford, M. Emmet Walsh, Joe Dallesandro, Andreas Katsulas, Dann Florek, Bill Marcus, Michael C. Gwynne & Dermot Mulroney Sony widescreen color DVD [8/98] for $12.49 Sony color VHS [6/97] out of prodn/many used full credits from IMDb

"Sunset Boulevard" [1950]
full credits from IMDb

"Under  The  Rainbow"  [1981]
full credits from IMDb

"What Price Hollywood?"
[R.K.O. Pathé June 1932]
full credits from IMDb

Film  Preservation

American Film Institute Most Wanted {Lost} Films
* Thomas Edison's "Frankenstein" [1910 silent]
"Cleopatra" [1917 silent] starring Theda Bara
WWI propaganda film "The Kaiser: Beast of Berlin" [1918 silent]
Walt Disney's first cartoon "Little Red Riding Hood" [1922 silent]
the 40-reel version of Eric von Stroheim's "Greed" [1924 silent]
D.W. Griffith's "That Royle Girl" [1925 silent] with W.C. Fields
"Camille" [1927 silent] starring Norma Talmadge
"London After Midnight" [1927 silent] starring Lon Chaney
"The Divine Woman" [1928 silent] starring Greta Garbo
* von Stroheim's "The Honeymoon" [1928] second half/sequel to "The Wedding March" [1928]
* Ernst Lubitch's "The Patriot" [1928] with Emil Jannings
"The Rogue Song" [1930 color musical] with Laurel & Hardy

	"Nitrate Won't Wait: A History of Film Preservation In The United States" [1992] by Anthony Slide McFarland & Co. 8¾x6 pb [8/2000] for $30.00 McFarland & Co. hardcover [2/92] out of print/used
	"Lost Films: Important Movies That Disappeared" [1996] by Frank T. Thompson Carol Publng pb [3/96] out of print/used
	"Missing Reels: Lost Films of American & European Cinema" [2000] by Harry Waldman McFarland & Co. 9¾x7 pb [10/2007] for $35.00 McFarland & Co. 10¼x7½ hardcover [7/2000] for $55.00

List of Research & Preservation Archives
Assn. of Moving Image Archivists
A.T.A.S. Archive of American Television
U.C.L.A. Film & TV Archive
U.C. Berkeley Pacific Film Archive
U.S.C Moving Image Archive
archivists listed at Silent Era website
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