02891nam 2200553 450 991079790870332120170919053451.01-4422-4259-0(CKB)3710000000576702(EBL)4353597(OCoLC)935925231(SSID)ssj0001599016(PQKBManifestationID)16300400(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001599016(PQKBWorkID)14887687(PQKB)10101882(MiAaPQ)EBC4353597(EXLCZ)99371000000057670220160211h20162016 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrBuccaneer James Stuart Blackton and the birth of American movies /Donald DeweyLanham, Maryland :Rowman & Littlefield,2016.©20161 online resource (313 p.)Film and HistoryDescription based upon print version of record.1-4422-4258-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Fish and Chips Tales; 2 In America; 3 Wives and Widows; 4 Movie Magic; 5 Burglaries; 6 War Is Good; 7 Real Wars and the Other Kind; 8 Wizardry; 9 Division of Labors; 10 What's Playing; 11 Reaching for Couth; 12 New Sets; 13 Star Powers; 14 Longer Views; 15 The Commodore; 16 General Chaos; 17 The High Cost of Peace; 18 Independent-Sort Of; 19 Don't Arise, Sir James; 20 At Homes with the Blacktons; 21 The Eagle Has Crashed; 22 Other Dimensions; 23 The Not-So-Great Depression; 24 Parading On; 25 Gin and Ham; 26 Last Glorious Adventures; EpilogueAppendix AAppendix B; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the AuthorThis is an in-depth look at the life and career of James Stuart Blackton (1875-1941), the first great commercial vendor of cinema who grasped that motion pictures were not merely a technical innovation, but a popular entertainment form for the masses. Blackton was a man of many firsts in the film industry: the first combination actor-director-producer in the United States, the country's first national exhibitor, and the first film propagandist. He contributed landmark innovations in everything from special effects to single-frame animation, for which he is often regarded as the father of the aFilm and history (Lanham, Md.)Motion picture producers and directorsUnited StatesBiographyAnimatorsUnited StatesBiographyMotion picture producers and directorsAnimators791.4302/3092Dewey Donald1940-1465289MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910797908703321Buccaneer3684004UNINA01080nam--2200361---450 99000064054020331620240313104759.00064054USA010064054(ALEPH)000064054USA01006405420010926d1973----km-y0itay0103----baengUS||||||||001yy<<A>> course in simple-homotopy theoryNew YorkSpringer-Verlag1973X, 114 p.ill.24 cmGraduate Texts in Mathematics100010003153472001Graduate Texts in Mathematics10514.24COHEN,Marshall M.345916ITsalbcISBD990000640540203316510 GTM 10 B4576 CBS51000108923510 GTM 10 A2090 CBS51000108924BKSCIPATTY9020010926USA01092720020403USA011713PATRY9020040406USA011644Course in simple-homotopy theory79539UNISA