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Before the Movies : American Magic Lantern Entertainment and the Nation's First Great Screen Artist, Joseph Boggs Beale.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Borton, Terry.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Beale, Joseph Boggs, 1841-1926.
- Lantern slides.
- Visual communication.
- United States.
- Local Subjects:
- Beale, Joseph Boggs, 1841-1926.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (207 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2015.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- The magic lantern
- Provenance, attribution, dating: an introduction to Beale's Catalogue raisonné
- The larger context of Beale's work
- Other American magic-lantern artists
- Assessing the screen art of Joseph Boggs Beale.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- ISBN:
- 0-86196-999-5
- 0-86196-800-X
- 9780861969999
- OCLC:
- 1549524264
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