ISBN: 1411629094

[EAN: 9781411629097], Neubuch, [PU: Lulu.com], JOHN HOWARD REID,CONSUMER GUIDES,COMMUNICATIONS, Performing Arts|Film|History & Criticism, Performing Arts|Film|Reference, 224 pages. Lets g… mais…

[EAN: 9781411629097], Neubuch, [PU: Lulu.com], JOHN HOWARD REID,CONSUMER GUIDES,COMMUNICATIONS, Performing Arts|Film|History & Criticism, Performing Arts|Film|Reference, 224 pages. Lets go back in time for a moment and pretend you are looking in on an average neighborhood theater manager in a big city like New York, Chicago, Pittsburgh or Detroit, in the classic days when Hollywood movies were the number one entertainment choice of the nation. On the one hand, our manager was obviously anxious to please his patrons by booking a highly advertised, ready-sold, colossal main feature such as Jezebel, A Star Is Born, The Rains Came, High Noon, Im No Angel, The Great Ziegfeld, 100 Men and a Girl, Mad About Music, Manhattan Melodrama, One Night of Love, Rio Rita, Road to Zanzibar, Mr Deeds Goes To Town, Mr Smith Goes To Washington, Little Miss Marker, The Mark of Zorro, The Merry Widow, The Great Waltz, King of Jazz, Ball of Fire, Mutiny on the Bounty or Alexanders Ragtime Band. On the other hand, patrons were supremely anxious to obtain value for their admittance money. They wanted a program that ran not less than three or even four hours. They demanded not only a colossal main feature, but a supporting program comprising a lesser movie with a running time of 70 minutes or perhaps slightly less, plus a cartoon, plus a short subject of one or two reels. So here are detailed not only main attractions (including all those listed above), but some of the lesser movies that clamored for the managers attention. The choice usually depended on the cost of the main feature. The more expensive the main attraction, the less money was available to hire a series entry like Fly-Away Baby (released by Warner Brothers as an entry in their Torchy Blane series). Instead, the manager would opt for a movie he could hire at the lowest possible flat rate, such as Death from a Distance (released through Chesterfield, a Poverty Row company that specialized in B movies), or Caribbean Mystery (a 20th Century-Fox release that the studio had no faith in), or Bowery at Midnight (Bela Lugosi in a Monogram picture), or Trouble in Texas (Tex Ritter and Rita Hayworth in a Grand National release), but not RKOs highly popular (and therefore comparatively expensive) Mexican Spitfire series starring the exotically excitable Lupe Velez. These of course are just a few of the movies discussed and detailed in Your Colossal Main Feature Plus Full Support Program. In addition to a wide selection of both main and supporting features, the book also examines some of the typical cartoons and short subjects available. This item ships from multiple locations. Your book may arrive from Roseburg,OR, La Vergne,TN.<

ISBN: 9781411629097

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[ED: Taschenbuch], [PU: Lulu.com], Remember the days when a night at the movies comprised a full three to four hours of varied entertainment? The attraction was not just the colossal main feature, but the supporting program: the newsreel, the cartoon, the shorts and the before-interval picture or "B" feature. Here's a book where you can re-live those wonderful times. No less than 140 varied features (from Hollywood's main studios to Poverty Row) are discussed, all with full cast and technical credits plus other background information. And to round the book out, I've also included 28 cartoons and 9 shorts! Versandfertig in 6-10 Tagen, DE, [SC: 0.00], Neuware, gewerbliches Angebot, offene Rechnung (Vorkasse vorbehalten)<

ISBN: 9781411629097

Remember the days when a night at the movies comprised a full three to four hours of varied entertainment? The attraction was not just the colossal main feature, but the supporting progra… mais…

Remember the days when a night at the movies comprised a full three to four hours of varied entertainment? The attraction was not just the colossal main feature, but the supporting program: the newsreel, the cartoon, the shorts and the before-interval picture or "B" feature. Here's a book where you can re-live those wonderful times. No less than 140 varied features (from Hollywood's main studios to Poverty Row) are discussed, all with full cast and technical credits plus other background information. And to round the book out, I've also included 28 cartoons and 9 shorts Books > Entertainment > Film > Reference List_Books<

ISBN: 9781411629097

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