Television The First Fifty Years Author:Jeff Greenfield Here at last is a book which ranges through Hollywood's vast history, from the early flickering images to modern glossy techniques, and samples the finest films from England, Sweden, Germany, Russia, France, and Italy. — Great stars and films come alive in 350 pages of brilliant photographs, beautifully reproduced in black and sepia duotone. And ... more »there are 32 pages of full-color photos -- some among the first color portraits of stars ever made.
A concise and readable history of the movies, together with captions which accompany the photographs throughout, make A World of Movies an all-encompassing, captivating volume. It is a book to idle and browse through, a book for reference, and a book to conjure up soaring fantasies of a fabulous, crazy industry.« less