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Before the Movies

- American Magic Lantern Entertainment and the Nation's First Great Screen Artist, Joseph Boggs Beale

About Before the Movies

Before the Movies is the first book about American screen entertainment in the pre-movie era. A groundbreaking study, lavishly illustrated with 330 color pictures, it is a comprehensive survey of the American artists who created early magic-lantern stories and songs for the screen. The book emphasizes the work of Joseph Boggs Beale, a pioneer in the field and demonstrates that Beale almost single-handedly created American-made screen entertainment for the generation before the movies. His lifetime output was 2,073 images in 258 setsΓÇöthe screen-time equivalent of 14 full-length filmsΓÇöwhich millions enjoyed every year. The provenance, attribution, and dates of BealeΓÇÖs lantern slides are discussed in detail, and a comprehensive catalog of his lantern images makes Before the Movies an essential reference volume.

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  • Language:
  • English
  • ISBN:
  • 9780861967117
  • Binding:
  • Hardback
  • Pages:
  • 208
  • Published:
  • February 9, 2015
  • Dimensions:
  • 261x200x20 mm.
  • Weight:
  • 876 g.
Delivery: 2-4 weeks
Expected delivery: December 20, 2024

Description of Before the Movies

Before the Movies is the first book about American screen entertainment in the pre-movie era. A groundbreaking study, lavishly illustrated with 330 color pictures, it is a comprehensive survey of the American artists who created early magic-lantern stories and songs for the screen. The book emphasizes the work of Joseph Boggs Beale, a pioneer in the field and demonstrates that Beale almost single-handedly created American-made screen entertainment for the generation before the movies. His lifetime output was 2,073 images in 258 setsΓÇöthe screen-time equivalent of 14 full-length filmsΓÇöwhich millions enjoyed every year. The provenance, attribution, and dates of BealeΓÇÖs lantern slides are discussed in detail, and a comprehensive catalog of his lantern images makes Before the Movies an essential reference volume.

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