The Parade's Gone ByThe magic of the silent screen, illuminated by the recollections of those who created it. They speak in this book––the pioneering directors (Henry King, Clarence Brown, William Wellman), the stars and producer-stars (Harold Lloyd, Mary Pickford, Geraldine Farrar, Gloria Swanson), the cameramen, the film editors, the creative giants of the silent screen who, flying by the seat of their pants, improvised their films on location, evolved––indeed invented––the techniques and concepts that we take for granted today. With frames and photographs you've never seen before, with pungently alive firsthand recollections, The Parade's Gone By... re-creates the earliest days of the movies, how the first moving pictures were actually shot, how the first film makers responded to the new medium untrammeled by rules and conventions––and turned a crude, fumbling gimmick into art. |
Contents
INTRODUCTION 1 Contents 2 THE PRIMITIVE YEARS | 5 |
EARLY DAYS AT VITAGRAPH | 13 |
THE EXPERIMENTERS | 21 |
EARLY HOLLYWOOD | 29 |
FROM BIRTH OF A NATION TO INTOLERANCE | 41 |
DIRECTORS65 | 65 |
W GRIFFITH | 77 |
ALLAN DWAN | 95 |
WILLIAM HORNBECK | 307 |
STUNT MEN OF SILENT PICTURES | 313 |
YOU CANT MAKE A PICTURE WITHOUT EM | 325 |
IT WAS A TOUGH LIFE | 329 |
THE SILENTS WERE NEVER SILENT | 337 |
ACTING | 343 |
THE STARS | 355 |
GERALDINE FARRAR | 365 |
ΤΟ HENRY KING | 105 |
MARY PICKFORD | 119 |
CLARENCE BROWN | 137 |
THE LOST WORK OF EDWARD SLOMAN | 155 |
WILLIAM WELLMAN | 165 |
CECIL B DE MILLE | 179 |
JOSEF VON STERNBERG | 189 |
THE CAMERAMAN | 211 |
CHARLES ROSHER | 223 |
ART DIRECTION | 237 |
DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS IN ROBIN HOOD | 247 |
THE GOLDEN PATH OR THE CURSE OF MELODRAMA | 259 |
SCENARIO | 268 |
THE HIDDEN POWER | 279 |
TINTING AND TITLING | 289 |
MARGARET BOOTH | 301 |
GLORIA SWANSON | 371 |
BETTY BLYTHE | 377 |
BENHUR | 385 |
PRODUCERS | 415 |
LOUIS B MAYER AND IRVING THALBERG | 421 |
DAVID O SELZNICK | 429 |
WERE NOT LAUGHING LIKE WE USED TO | 435 |
REGINALD DENNY | 447 |
HAROLD LLOYD | 457 |
BUSTER KEATON | 473 |
CHAPLIN | 495 |
THE SILENT FILM IN EUROPE509 | 509 |
ABEL GANCE | 517 |
THE TALKING PICTURE | 565 |
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