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A groundbreaking monograph of the brief period during the first fifteen years of the film's inception in which large numbers of recent South and East European immigrants discovered (and fell in love with) the movies. This generally understudied period gave rise to extreme middle class reaction against films as well as the first efforts by immigrants themselves to become theatre owners/operators, distributors and finally filmmakers.

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Book category Books in English The arts Film, TV & radio Films, cinema

• Full title: To the Rescue
• Subtitle: How Immigrants Saved the American Film Industry, 1896-1912
• Author: Ken Weiss
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 124
• EAN: 9781572920514
• ISBN: 1572920513
• ID: 05083950
• Publisher: Austin & Winfield,U.S.
• Weight: 318 g
• Dimensions: 217 × 136 × 14 mm
• Date of publishing: 31. March 1997

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