Welcome to our newly
designed website where those lovers of the early years of Hollywood's
Silver Screen will be able to nostalgically reminisce and look back at
books featuring the stars of Hollywood's Golden Age. The feature
Photo Play presents scenes and action as has never been possible on any
stage. Yet the very best of these fails to satisfy us fully,
because it can not, even with the best and most skillful direction, give
all of the character, the interplay of emotion, the subtle inner motives
and the finer bits of humor which go to make up the whole of life.
All do indeed appear upon the screen in all of their dramatic power,
still we want much more if we are to have the fullest possible
understanding of all the beauty and strength of personality which go to
make up the deeper background of life as the author makes it plain in
his pages.
The best proof of the need for supplementing the PhotoPlay with very
full text lies in the picturization of any great novel. See the
picture, then read the novel and you will find out how one helps the
other. Even then you have reversed the best order of
procedure. Had you read the novel first, and then seen the picture
how much deeper would have been your understanding and appreciation of
all the scenes! There can be no doubt in the mind of any thinking
person that the Book and the Photo Play belong together. One helps
the other infinitely. As you read the book you imagine how the
characters must have acted at the critical turns in the drama, and when
you see the picture your ideas are broadened and deepened, if the
picture has been well done.
Join us for a look back at those wonderful novels of years ago.
Those stories that bring us back to the early years of the Silver Screen
... to Hollywood's Golden Age
... an expedition to the far reaches of Skull Island uncovers a gigantic
ape, the mighty King Kong …
... that air of excitement that gripped the crowd as the dirigible
Pensacola approached through the clouds …
My
research is drawing to a close & a collection of over 10,000
movie books will be coming to market, perhaps the best
collection of film fiction circa 1912-1969 ever compiled (now
scanned and part of a pending database). If you are a serious
buyer, get in touch and email your want list.
