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Movie Publicity Showcase - Volume 28: Buster Keaton's "The General" and "Steamboat Bill, Jr."

Movie Publicity Showcase - Volume 28: Buster Keaton's "The General" and "Steamboat Bill, Jr."

Hyatt, I. Joseph

Paperback

Film & Video Art

ISBN13: 9798884651296
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 12 2024
Pages: 102
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.21 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
Movie Publicity Showcase - Volume 28 places Buster Keaton's films The General and Steamboat Bill, Jr. into their historical first run contexts, utilizing original pressbook materials from the 1920's. Read about one of your favorite stars as he was during the days of the movies' initial releases.

Both Steamboat Bill, Jr. and The General are considered two of the greatest movies ever made. Buster Keaton was at the peak of his creative career. The locomotive on the bridge' sequence is the most expensive in silent movie history.

See how creative theater managers could draw in an audience when movie exhibition was an art form. See what movie fans of that day experienced when going to the movies! This is the twenty-eighth of a series.

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