William Sloan Expert Reader Us Edition (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+ condition. No jacket, as issued. First Printing of the First US Edition. New York: Scholastic Inc., 1995. Bright, clean, square, tight copy. Sharp corners. Not a book club edition. Not price clipped (19.95). No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Beautifully illustrated throughout in full-color. A delightful inter-active history of filmmaking for young people (or anyone really). This is a visually splendid movable book, printed on glossy (vinyl?) sheets. It includes fold-outs, see-through pages, window cut-outs, a tipped-in book within the book, etc. An informative look at early motion picture technology (magic lanterns, praxinoscope, thaumatrope, phenakisticope), Eadweard Muybridge photos, Hollywood, Charlie Chaplin, Al Jolson, cinematography, editing, Technicolor, 3-D films, special effects, etc. An actual sample of 35mm film is tipped-in. Original vinyl stickers (unused) remain in the rear pocket. A volume in Scholastic's Voyages of Discovery Series. Translated from the 1994 French edition. Has brief biographical profiles of great moviemakers (Cecil B. DeMille, Frederico Fellini, Alfred Hitchcock, Jean Renoir, Martin Scorcese, Stephen Spielberg, Orson Wells, etc.). Glossary. Bibliography. Index. Original spiral bound, yellow and black laminated, pictorial boards. First Printing of the First US Edition. Hardcover (spiral bound). Very Good+ condition/No jacket, as issued. 8vo. 48pp. …