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Originally published in 1964, this book tells the history of the British cinematograph industry for the first time. It describes moments of splendid triumph and others of shattering failure. The mood switches from reckless optimism to demoralising pessimism, from years in which British films won the highest international awards to those when they were dismissed with scorn.
It recalls a score of productions still ranked among the world's best, and the stars whose reputation was established in them. Attention is focused on the directors, those who kept to the fore during two and three decades and those with only one major success to their name. Behind them the men are identified who strove, often to their considerable financial loss, to gain a worthy place for British films in the world's markets.
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INDEX
Academy Cinema, 97, 131
Ackland, Rodney, 125
Acres, Birt, 17, 32, 35ff, 45, 56
Acting, Film, 60, 65ff, 70, 82, 93
Ad Valorem Dispute, The, 26, 182, 192
Admirable Crichton, The, 69
Advisory Films Council, 137
African Queen, The, 28, 215
After the Verdict, 103
Agate, James, 139
Aherne, Brian, 100
Ainley, Henry, 59, 112
Alexander, Sir George, 70
Alexandra Palace, 67, 68
Alf’s Button, 20, 75, 77
Alhambra, The, 17, 37, 114
Allan, Elizabeth, 118
Allen, Irving, 224
Alpar, Gitta, 125
Alwyn, William, 163, 202
Amateur Cinematography, 42, 227
Amateur Gentleman, The, 130
Amazing Quest of Mr Ernest Bliss, The, 77
Ambler, Eric, 168, 202
Ames, Gerald, 77, 80
Anderson, Lindsay, 217
Anderson, Michael, 28, 187, 212
Anglo-American Films, 26, 85, 135, 143, 145, 195, 203, 215
Angry Silence, The, 29
Animal Farm, 28, 217
Anna Karenina, 191
Annabella, 140
Annakin, Ken, 192
Anstey, Edgar, 149, 150, 204, 216
Antarctic Crossing, 217
Archibald, Lord, 197
Arlen, Richard, 119
Arliss, George, 119, 156
Arliss, Leslie, 25, 26, 125, 129, 154, 172, 173, 188
Armageddon, 98
Armat, Thomas, 33
Army Kinematography, 25, 161ff, 167, 168
Arthur, George K., 81
As You Like It, 130, 175
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Original Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Introduction. The Tough ’Un
- The Sequence of Events
- ONE THE INVENTORS
- TWO A SHOWMAN’S INDUSTRY
- THREE THE PEOPLE’S STORYTELLER
- FOUR HEPWORTH, BARKER AND JUPP
- FIVE EUROPE GOES TO THE WAR AND AMERICA GOES TO THE PICTURES
- SIX THE BLACK NOVEMBER OF 1924
- SEVEN GETTING TO GRIPS WITH HOLLYWOOD
- EIGHT BREAKING OUT FROM ISOLATION
- NINE THE LAST OF THE SILENT YEARS
- TEN THE FIRST OF THE ‘TALKIES’
- ELEVEN THE SECOND PHASE IN THE THIRTIES
- TWELVE SPECULATIVE FINANCING
- THIRTEEN THE END OF THE PARTY: LATE ’THIRTIES
- FOURTEEN EUROPE AT WAR AGAIN: AMERICA NEUTRAL
- FIFTEEN THE LAST OF THE WAR YEARS
- SIXTEEN MELODRAMAS, TOUGH AND TEARFUL
- SEVENTEEN MUCH LESS THAN WAS HOPED FOR
- EIGHTEEN SWEPT ASIDE IN THE FLOOD
- NINETEEN THE YEAR WHEN EVERYTHING WENT WRONG
- TWENTY ON THE WRONG SIDE OF FIFTY
- TWENTY-ONE LOSING THE CINEMA HABIT
- TWENTY-TWO THE UNCERTAIN FUTURE
- Index