Click Image To View Larger

The Shattered Silents: How the Talkies Came to Stay
by: Alexander Walker

Name: The Shattered Silents: How the Talkies Came to Stay by: Alexander Walker
SKU: 384941
Price: 18.00 USD
Availability: InStock

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, 1st US, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a chipped dust jacket, 218 pages, b&w illustrations. "British film critic Alexander Walker has written the first comprehensive book on the most important development in film history-- the introduction of sound. The Shattered Silents is a superbly written, lively book that expertly re-creates the atmosphere of the silent-to-sound transition. It is illustrated with 65 photographs, some of them quite rare."

Record # 384941

Price: $18.00


More books you may like
Pinocchio: The Making of the Disney Epic by: Kaufman, J.B.	Worlds to Conquer: The Art & Making of Walt Disney's Fantasia by: J.B. Kaufman	Vagabond Stars: A World History of Yiddish Theater by: Sandrow, Nahma	Steve McQueen: The Salvation of an American Icon by: Marshall Terrill, Greg Laurie
Modern Film Scripts - Weekend and Wind from the East - Two Films by Jean-Luc Godard by: Godard, Jean-Luc	Later Letters of Lady Augusta Stanley: 1864-1876 by: Dean Of Windsor/Bolitho, Hector	The Third Theatre by: Brustein, Robert	The Lady From The Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick by: O'Meara, Mallory