Hollywood: The Pioneers

Hollywood: The Pioneers

by Kevin Brownlow, John Kobal

About this book

If you're a pre-talking picture Hollywood movie buff, this book is for you! Here is the sudden emergence of a film colony and the personalities that formed the early film industry, camermen, directors, stars. A history of the beginning days of movie making in Hollywood, focusing on the great actors like Keaton, Chaplin & Fairbanks & the great directors like Griffith & Raoul Walsh. Alive with the excitement of the old Hollywood, peppered with vivid cinematic and social recollections never before on record, illustrated with 300 rare photos - stills, on-the-set shots, portraits, most of them published here for the first time and reproduced from the original negatives or prints - this is a unique film history, the result of a unique collaboration.

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