Ted Okuda, Edward Watz

The Columbia Comedy Shorts

Two-Reel Hollywood Film Comedies, 1933-1958

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Columbia produced over 500 two-reel shorts from 1933 through 1958, with Hollywood's finest comics (the Three Stooges, Andy Clyde, Buster Keaton, Harry Langdon, Charley Chase, others). Fully illustrated with never-before-published photographs, the book chronicles the history of all, including interviews with the veterans. The filmography covers all of the 526 two-reelers: credits, date, synopsis.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland and Company, Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 449g
• ISBN-13: 9780786405770
• ISBN-10: 0786405775
• Artikelnr.: 21102316

Autorenporträt

Ted Okuda is a Chicago-based film historian whose articles have appeared in such publications as Nostalgia Digest, Filmfax, and Classic Images.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments    
Foreword    
Preface    
Introduction    
1 A Historical Overview    
2 The Comedy Shorts Department: A Close-up    
3 The Series    
4 Television and Theatrical Revivals    
5 Selected Biographies    
Bibliography    
Index