Silent Serial Sensations
The Wharton Brothers and the Magic of Early Cinema

A pleasant book on the pioneering filmmakers the Warton Brothers. In the 1910s, they set up shop on Cayuga Lake near Ithaca NY. Their main films were serials, like Perils of Pauline. At their height, William Randolph Hearst financed them and they were the biggest filmmakers around. Eventually The Bi......more

Obviously ratings and reviews have a definite correlation to how interested a person is on a topic. My main reason for picking up this book was to learn more about the Elaine serials with a passing interest in the rest. The Elaine coverage was comprehensive to be sure but there were no real new golden......more

Those times when the story concentrated on the screenplays of individual films weren't that interesting but other aspects about the Whartons et.al and the history of film at the time most definitely was.......more