by Dale Dalenberg | Feb 25, 2018 | Dalenberg Library Gallery, Uncategorized
Nowadays, 90 years later, the most neglected period in film history is the transition from silents to talkies. Most people only know anything about this massive upheaval in the film world from the comic spin on it in the 1952 classic Singin’ in the Rain, with...
by Dale Dalenberg | Jan 2, 2018 | Dalenberg Library Gallery
Facsimile of the 1895 monograph detailing, in rather too florid language for modern readers, some technical aspects of Thomas Edison’s first movie studio and the devices for capturing and playing back some of the first moving pictures. The most fascinating part...
by Dale Dalenberg | Dec 5, 2017 | Dalenberg Library Gallery
Wings is a novelization of the screenplay for the movie of the same title. This Grossett & Dunlap edition from 1927 features publicity stills from Paramount Pictures. Therefore, it is a full-fledged movie tie-in edition, as we would call it today. The film, a...
by Dale Dalenberg | Nov 10, 2017 | Dalenberg Library Gallery
Grass, released in 1925, stands as one of the earliest ethnographic documentary films, rivalled in the silent era only by Robert Flaherty’s Nanook of the North (1922). While Nanook is a fine film, it has come under criticism for not being totally...
by Dale Dalenberg | Oct 25, 2017 | Dalenberg Library Gallery
Star Trek had a rocky life in its first iteration as what is now called “The Original Series” (which lasted for three seasons and 79 episodes between September, 1966, and June, 1969. Threatened with cancellation by NBC over low ratings, a massive...
by Dale Dalenberg | Oct 4, 2017 | Dalenberg Library Gallery
Zane Grey (1872-1939) wrote 90 books and was one of the first million dollar authors. He is best known for his westerns, which were instrumental in cementing the 20th Century ideal of the 19th Century American frontier. This is a 1924 Grosset & Dunlap budget...
