Warner Bros Studios (10 results)
- Hardcover
Seller: Book Alley, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.Book Alley
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. A very good hardcover in a very good dust jacket. No markings.
Language: English
Published by Rare Bird Books / Warner Bros. Studios, 2016
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Charles Berry, Bookseller, Lakeport, CA, U.S.A.Charles Berry, Bookseller
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First printing (complete number line) of the "First Hardcover Edition" with dust jacket, in excellent, unmarked condition (slightest handling, one small DJ crease). The DJ is protected by a new, clear, removeable cover. 123 pages, with photographs throughout.…[2.1 lbs] 128 p. Book.
- Hardcover
Seller: cookbookjj, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.cookbookjj
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: as new. 1942600801 AS NEW as new dj.
- Hardcover
Seller: WeBuyBooks, Rossendale, LANCS, United KingdomWeBuyBooks
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Condition: Like New. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. An apparently unread copy in perfect condition. Dust cover is intact with no nicks or tears. Spine has no signs of creasing. Pages are clean and not marred by notes or folds of any kind.
Language: English
Published by Rutledge Hill Press Inc, Nashville, Tenn., 1995
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: The Print Room, Cockernhoe nr Luton, United KingdomThe Print Room
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression with full number line. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, not price clipped ($19.95), small previous owner's name to top ffep, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy. 134pp, lav…ishly illustrated. Recipes inspired by the hit tv series. I particularly liked the 'Flirting with Firemen Firehouse Grill'. Jacket by Bruce Gore after Warner Bros Studios (illustrator).
Published by Warner Bros. Studios Facilities, 1995
- Hardcover
Seller: Rob the Book Man, Vancouver, WA, U.S.A.Rob the Book Man
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Large hardback in very good condition.
Published by Sagedition
- Softcover
Seller: Librairie Alpha, Romans-sur-Isère, FranceLibrairie Alpha
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juin 1982, album broché, 50pp - bon état.
Published by Warner Bros. Studios, 2006
- Hardcover
Seller: Books that Benefit, Fawley, United KingdomBooks that Benefit
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Black cloth hard cover with silver logo on front cover - Fine. In DJ - Fine. 169 pages with numerous illustrations. Content - Fine. (1371g) Photo on request. As Books that Benefit gives the proceeds from the sale of this book to charity correct postage will be asked for wh…en more than default price quoted.
Published by Los Angeles, CA: Warner Bros., 1948
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.Wittenborn Art Books
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Good. 8x10 black & white glossy publicity photo. Very Good.
[An eye-catching souvenir photo album/scrapbook capturing the over-the-top stunts, promotions, displays, and lobby antics promoting pre-Code movies at The Strand in Oshkosh, WI, as well as the Smoot and Lincoln Theatre's in Parkersburg, West Virginia during the opening years of the Great Depression. About half is devoted to Mae West's famed titillating "I'm no Angel" in which she starred with Cary Grant as the ex-circus siren queen; with snippets and souvenirs devoted to the 1930 "Sea Wolf," the 1931 Little Caesar, Dracula with Bela Lugosi, and Dirigible with Fay Wray, and significant space to the 1932 Joe E. Brown's "Fireman, Save my Child!"].
[FILM & CINEMA -- MOVIE PROMOTIONS & ADVERTISING STUNTS]. [WARNER BROS. STUDIOS THEATRE CHAIN].
Published by The Strand Theatre, Smoot Theatre, Lincoln Theatre, & Warner Bros., 1930-1934]., [Hollywood, CA & New York, NY; Oshkosh, WI & Parkersburg, WV:, 1930
- Hardcover
Seller: Zephyr Used & Rare Books, Vancouver, WA, U.S.A.Zephyr Used & Rare Books
Contact seller5-star sellerOblong folio. 14.5 x 11.5 in. [100 pp (unpaginated).], two different papers, many preserved in archival mylar sleeves. With 90 original silver gelatin photographs, either mounted, or loose and inserted into sleeves, sized from 2 x 2 in. up to 8 x 10 in., most sized approx. 5 x 7 in., many w/ photographer's imprints, 71 pieces of… mounted ephemera, including promotional cards, souvenir promotional items such as napkins, studio advertising mimeograph typescript marketing scripts, lobby cards, newspaper clippings, and more. All leaves bound w/ brass screw posts at gutter margin, many preserved in archival mylar sleeves (some leaves w/ chipping & tears at fore=-edges, offset tears, and or reside on versos of a few photos, some scuffing, old glue markings, cropping to some leaves), still a VG artifact preserved as album. This exceptional original Warner Bros. Studio marketing photo album/scrapbook chronicles the movie industry's system of engaging the movie-going public during the Great Depression in a form of interactive promotional live theatre to immerse them in the cinematic experience. Featuring physical props, displays, special lighting, costumed extras, studio scripts featuring a myriad of promotions, the Warner Bros. Studios theatre group was able to enhance and pull in far more movie-goers, and set the foundation for their marketing system in the coming decades. By using their opulent and fabulous 1920's era created movie palaces, these images capture the pre-Code sexualized Mae West in slinky costumes emblazoned on radio station cars, physical stand-up showroom displays, restaurant menus, post-Prohibition tavern beer coasters, and even pulled in local officials such as Mayor George Oaks of Oshkosh, WI. Also featured here are photos and flyers for the giveaway cars, tie-ins with the Oshkosh State Teachers College football team, and nearby department store window displays which significantly expanded the visual and immersive experience.Of particular interest is the included and very detailed 117 step campaign script for Mae West's iconic "I'm No Angel" featuring the titillating star as Tira, the circus beauty who manages to always be mistress of the situation, whether in the cage with wild beasts, her boudoir filled with admirers to be bedded, or even charming and seducing the judge at the end of the film with only a wiggle. The pre-Code campaign encourages the Warner Bros. Studio theatre's to include a "Try your figure" display panel, where young women would measure themselves against the busty silhouette, and those that matched closest to the scantily gowned West would receive free tickets. Another stunt was setting up a "Mae West Voice Test" using a dictaphone in the lobby, with a "pretty girl attendant" set up in charge to ask potential women movie-goer attendees to utter "Come up and see me sometime" and free tickets were awarded for the best Mae West imitations. Other movies featured at the Strand in Oshkosh, or the Smoot & Lincoln Theatre's in Parkersburg, WV depicted here with promotions, souvenirs, and photographs, include: "The Sea Wolf" based on Jack London's book, and which starred Milton Sills, Jane Keithley, and Raymond Hacket, released just 1 week after Sills' death, and features stunts with potential young movie-goers to bring their Rin Tin Tin like dogs, as well as airplane stunts and lobby card; or, elaborate window displays, and automobile floats mocked up as dirigibles, and costumed extras for Frank Capra's "Dirigible" released in 1931, and starred Fay Wray, Jack Holt, Ralph Graves, and Hobart Bosworth, set against the drama of a competition by fixed-wing aircraft and dirigible airships to reach the South Pole. Other movies briefly archived in the group here, feature "When Ladies Meet" released in 1933 starring Ann Harding, Myrna Loy, and Robert Montgomery, or, a couple mentions of the 1931 Bela Lugosi Dracula. The 1933 Gold Diggers is featured in several photos, which starred Joan Blondell, Aline MacMahaon, Monica Bannister, Joan Barclay, and Connie Blackwood as out-of-work Broadway chorus girls. Also appearing here in approximately one fourth of the photo album/scrapbook is a similar campaign as that for Mae West for the 1932 "Fireman, Save my Child!" with the wildly popular comedian Joe E. Brown starring as Joe Grant, inventor, fireman, and baseball player, offered to play in the big leagues in the film, but earning more money from his inventions Again, the script advises engaging the local fire department to put on stunts, include the supplied advertising on their fire engines, and even encourages the use of a large animatronic mechanical head of Brown in a fireman's hat in the lobby. The movie was actually a natural fit for Joe Brown, who had launched his physical comedy during the 1893 Depression by making faces at the firemen on passing coal-burning trains so they would throw coal at him to collect and sell, and later worked as circus acrobat and newsboy, and was a lifelong baseball fan. From 1930-July, 1934, the Hollywood studios were largely self-regulating their content, with continued threats by outside groups to "clean" up their movies, and somehow balance the puritanical group sensibilities against the ever growing demands by audiences for movies that were daring, edgy, naughty, and even sexualized, often depicting spousal abuse, sexual bondage, marital infidelity, free love, with stars such as Mae West, Norma Shearer, Kay Francis, Dorothy Mackaill, Nancy Carroll, and Constance Bennett (typically depicted half-clad, or in bed). At the time, the movie studios and theatre's were attempting to recoup the massive investments in transitioning to sound films, and market the new technology by cultivating a sophisticated campaign system, often hiring Broadway writers, directors, and actors to travel around and oversee their promotions productions. See: John Farr, How Movies Got Us Through the Great Depression, Best Movies (2024); David P. Hayes, Production Code.
