Hollywood : legend and reality / Edited by Michael Webb. - 1st ed. - Boston : Little, Brown, in association with Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, c1986. - xi, 227 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 x 28 cm.

Published on the occasion of an exhibition of the same name held April 1986-February 1988 at the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; Cooper-Hewitt Museum, The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Design, New York City; Center for the Fine Arts, Miami; Cincinnati Art Museum; The Denver Art Museum; Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History "A New York Graphic Society book."

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction-Spellbound in darkness
Sending a message
Production
Screenwriting
Directing the picture
Production design
Costume design
Cinematography
Editing
Scoring
Special effects
Star power

This book was published in conjunction with a 1986-1988 Smithsonian Institution traveling exhibition. The text consists mostly of excerpts from earlier publications. The book offers chapters on production, direction, screenwriting, design, scoring and other topics. The illustrative material is of particular interest. While some of the items have been pictured in other books, most are rare photographs of stars, directors at work, props and others subjects. ISBN 0-8212-1588-4: $40.00 (For use only in the library)

0821215892 (pbk.) 9780821215890 (pbk.) 0821215884 (hardcover) 9780821215883 (hardcover)

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Motion picture industry--History.--United States
Industria cinematográfica --Historia --Estados Unidos
Motion pictures--History.--United States
Cine --Historia--Estados Unidos

PN 1993.5 / H746 1986

791.43/0973