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Paramount in Paris
Harry Waldman
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Description for Paramount in Paris
Hardback. In an ambitious attempt to dominate the international sound film market, Paramount, the motion picture powerhouse, invested money abroad where great filmmaking talent was at hand. Waldman looks at the 300 films Paramount produced in Paris and the filmmakers who loaned their genius to an effort that has been overlooked by film historians. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; APF; HBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 145 x 21. Weight in Grams: 454.
The years 1930-1933 were a time of experimentation and change. Sound (in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish) was being added to image by the world's film studios. Motion Picture News warned that foreign-version "talkers" were "the only means of breaking into film markets abroad." Fans around the world made it clear that they were eager to hear movies in their own languages and had little tolerance for sound films in languages other than their own. In an ambitious and risky attempt to dominate the international sound film market, Paramount invested money abroad where great filmmaking talent was at hand. ... Read more
The years 1930-1933 were a time of experimentation and change. Sound (in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish) was being added to image by the world's film studios. Motion Picture News warned that foreign-version "talkers" were "the only means of breaking into film markets abroad." Fans around the world made it clear that they were eager to hear movies in their own languages and had little tolerance for sound films in languages other than their own. In an ambitious and risky attempt to dominate the international sound film market, Paramount invested money abroad where great filmmaking talent was at hand. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780810834316
SKU
V9780810834316
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About Harry Waldman
Harry Waldman is the author of several books, includingScenes Unseen (1991), Beyond Hollywood's Grasp (Scarecrow, 1994), and Hollywood and the Foreign Touch: A Dictionary of Foreign Filmmakers and Their Films from America, 1910-1995 (Scarecrow, 1996).
Reviews for Paramount in Paris
Those familiar with Waldman's previous books on Hollywood and foreigners and lost scenes won't be disappointed. He combines all three subjects in one epic of an entire lost foreign studio...Waldman has done quite a job in rescuing one of Hollywood's mostintriguing stories from the mysts of time...the synopses (of films often more risqu<\#142> than would have been allowed in the ... Read more