Buy This Book: Asheville Movies: The Silent Era
Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2017 7:41 pm
Hey Gang,
Frank Thompson has embarked on a series of film books about silent era filmmaking in and around North Carolina that are terrific reads about an area of silent film history previously unknown for the most part. Volume One of what will be several volumes, ASHEVILLE MOVIES: THE SILENT ERA, is now available as an e-book or pre-order:
https://www.menwithwingspress.com/
All new information on regional filmmaking by some famous (and not so famous) names in the good ol' sunny south. Frank is a terrific writer as well and makes the newly unearthed from original research info palatable and entertaining as well.
This book is a rediscovery of a lost era in Asheville history, covering the films produced here between 1900 and 1929. There are 136 images, most of which I guarantee that you've never seen before.
Of the fifty-plus films made in and around the city during that period, only one survives -- "The Conquest of Canaan" (1921) starring Thomas Meighan and Doris Kenyon.
I says pick this up, time to learn something new for a change.
RICHARD M ROBERTS
Frank Thompson has embarked on a series of film books about silent era filmmaking in and around North Carolina that are terrific reads about an area of silent film history previously unknown for the most part. Volume One of what will be several volumes, ASHEVILLE MOVIES: THE SILENT ERA, is now available as an e-book or pre-order:
https://www.menwithwingspress.com/
All new information on regional filmmaking by some famous (and not so famous) names in the good ol' sunny south. Frank is a terrific writer as well and makes the newly unearthed from original research info palatable and entertaining as well.
This book is a rediscovery of a lost era in Asheville history, covering the films produced here between 1900 and 1929. There are 136 images, most of which I guarantee that you've never seen before.
Of the fifty-plus films made in and around the city during that period, only one survives -- "The Conquest of Canaan" (1921) starring Thomas Meighan and Doris Kenyon.
I says pick this up, time to learn something new for a change.
RICHARD M ROBERTS