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For more than a century, original music has been composed for the cinema. From the early days when live music accompanied silent films to the present in which a composer can draw upon a full orchestra or a lone synthesizer to embody a composition, music has been an integral element of most films. By the late 1930s, movie studios had established music departments, and some of the greatest names in film music emerged during Hollywood’s Golden Age, including Alfred Newman, Max Steiner, Dimitri Tiomkin, and Bernard Herrmann. Over the decades, other creators of screen music offered additional memorable scores, and some composers—such as Henry Mancini, Randy Newman, and John Williams—have be...
Covering a tumultuous period of the 1950s, this work explores the divorce of movie studios from their theater chains, the panic of the blacklist era, the explosive emergence of science fiction as the dominant genre, and the rise of television and Hollywood's response with widescreen spectacles.
The latest Henry Koster sensation. This book is your ultimate resource for Henry Koster. Here you will find the most up-to-date 82 Success Facts, Information, and much more. In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Henry Koster's Early life, Career and Personal life right away. A quick look inside: Francisco Goya - Films, Barbara McLean - Final cuts, Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing - Feature Film - 1960s, Three Smart Girls, Peggy Moran - Life and career, Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing - Feature Film - 1950s, Desiree (film), The Great Opportunity, Screwball comedy film - N...
Alex Lord, a pioneer inspector of rural British Columbia schools, shares in these recollections his experiences in a province barely out of the stage coach era. Travelling through vast northern territory, utilizing unreliable transportation and enduring climatic extremes, Lord became familiar with the aspirations of remote communities and their faith in the humanizing effects of tiny assisted schools. En route, he performed in resolute yet imaginative fashion the supervisory functions of a top government educator developing an educational philosophy of his own based on an understanding of the provincial geography, a reverence for citizenship, and a work ethic tuned to challenge and accomplishment.
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