[Rarebooks] fs: Today in History: Making Movies...

[Joslin Hall Rare Books, ABAA]

On March 26, 1885 the Eastman Dry Plate and Film Co. of Rochester, N.Y.,
manufactured the first commercial motion picture film.

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Farber, Stephen. "THE MOVIE RATING GAME" Washington; Public Affairs Press:
1972. This "hard-hitting book tears apart the cloak of secrecy behind
which the Code and Rating Administration of the Motion Picture Association
has operated since 1968". It also provides a history of the development of
the ratings system and movie censorship in America. Hardcover. 6.25"x9",
128 pages, dj; a fine copy in a stained and soiled jacket. [02601] $50.00

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Gale, Arthur L. "HOW TO WRITE A MOVIE" New York; Brick Row Book Shop:
1936. "A handbook on movie planning, continuity and scenario writing,
silent and sound, for amateur and non-theatrical movie makers". Softcover.
5.5"x8.25", 199 pages, covers a bit soiled, but a nice copy. [02602]
$100.00

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Sherwood, Robert E. "THE BEST MOVING PICTURES OF 1922-23. Also Who's Who
in the Movies and Yearbook of the American Screen"  Boston; Small, Maynard
& Company: 1923. Hardcover. 5.5"x7.5", 346 pages, b/w plates, including a
frontispiece showing Douglas Fairbanks in "Robin Hood". Light wear, but a
nice copy. [02600] $125.00

"My experience in following miles of film across the screen has bred in me
a deep respect for the movies, and an abiding faith in their
possibilities... The movies belong to the masses and not to the few. For
which reason, the short-sighted intelligensia believe that the cinema is
vulgar, and vulgar in the worst sense. According to their shaky logic the
Ninth Symphony is a marvelous composition until it is recorded on the
phonograph. Unfortunately, this silly idea has become an obsession with
the movie producers themselves. Realizing that they are enslaved by an
enormous public, they feel that they must climb down to the lowest level
that this public represents...

A novel may be sold to no more than ten thousand people and still be
considered successful. But a motion picture must reach an audience that
runs up into the hundreds of millions if it is to cover the staggering
expenses of production. The producers, naturally enough, are awed by these
impressive figures, and frightened by them. Their efficiency experts tell
them that sixty percent of their patrons are morons, that they can't grasp
anything that is over the heads of a fourteen year old child. So the
producers set up this mythical fourteen-year old mentality as their god,
and do obeisance at its shrine".

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