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1) Gold rush
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The Little Tramp searches for gold and love in the Klondike. Includes both a restored version of the original 1925 silent film, and the 1942 re-issue, the latter featuring a new score and narration written and spoken by Charles Chaplin.
8) Silent stars
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"From one of America's renowned film scholars: a look at the greatest silent film stars - not those few who are fully appreciated and understood, like Chaplin, Keaton, Gish, and Garbo, but those who have been misperceived, unfairly dismissed, or forgotten."--BOOK JACKET. "This is the first book to anatomize the major silent players, reconstruct their careers, and give us a sense of what those films, those stars, and that Hollywood were all about....
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"During the Roaring Twenties Walt Disney and his friends made upwards of one hundred films, turning them out as often as one- and two-per month. Years before Mickey Mouse, the young entrepreneur recruited and nurtured an extraordinary array of talent that included Ubbe Iwerks, Rudy Ising, Carl Stalling, Hugh Harman, and Friz Freleng: men who in later years played crucial roles in creating the golden era of Disney, Warner Brothers and MGM cartoons."--BOOK...
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An autobiography by the former movie star and producer, Gloria Swanson.
"Gloria Swanson, at eighty-one, in full possession of all of her many strengths, and now the sole survivor of a lifetime filled with such adventures that no novelist could begin to imagine it, tells her own story in her own words, and leaves nothing out. An army brat on posts in Key West and Puerto Rico, she was on the road to stardom from the moment when, at the age of fifteen,...
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In this cinematic milestone, director D.W. Griffith utilized enormous sets and thousands of extras in order to stage his cinematic exploration of intolerance and it's [sic] terrible effects throughout history - from ancient Babylon and biblical Judea to medieval Paris and modern America.--Container.
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"Rediscover the fascinating lives and pioneering achievements of 15 women who dared to venture into early motion pictures, at a time when the industry was dominated by men. These women not only succeeded but became focal points of the industry, earning positions at the heights of their profession. Many are largely forgotten today, yet each made a lasting and significant contribution to early cinema." "Each profile contains a biographical treatment,...
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"As one of the most famous faces of silent cinema, Buster Keaton was and continues to be revered for his stoic expressions, clever visual gags, and acrobatic physicality in classics such as Sherlock Jr., The General, and The Cameraman. In this spirited biography, every aspect of Buster Keaton's astonishing life is explored, from his humble beginnings in vaudeville with his parents to his meteoric rise to Hollywood stardom during the silent era. Based...
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Sanctuary Cinema provides the first history of the origins of the Christian film industry. Focusing on the early days of film during the silent era, it traces the ways in which the Church came to adopt film making as a way of conveying the Christian message to adherents. Surprisingly, rather than separating themselves from Hollywood or the American entertainment culture, early Christian film makers embraced Hollywood cinematic techniques and often...
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