[Rarebooks] fs: 3 early Movie books

[Joslin Hall Rare Books, ABAA]

All 3 books- $100 net, ppd.


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.


Sherwood, Robert E.  "THE BEST MOVING PICTURES OF 1922-1923.  ALSO WHO'S 
WHO IN THE MOVIES AND YEARBOOK OF THE AMERICAN SCREEN"  Boston; Small, 
Maynard & Company: 1923.  "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".  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.


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.


All 3 books- $100 net, ppd.



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