Before the Movies: American Magic-Lantern Entertainment and the Nation's First Great Screen Artist, Joseph Boggs Beale

by Debbie Borton and Terry Borton

Before the Movies is the first book about American screen entertainment in the pre-movie era. A groundbreaking study, lavishly illustrated with 330 color pictures, it is a comprehensive survey of the American artists who created early magic-lantern stories and songs for the screen. The book emphasizes the work of Joseph Boggs Beale, a pioneer in the field and demonstrates that Beale almost single-handedly created American-made screen entertainment...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0861967119
• ISBN13: 9780861967117
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: John Libbey & Company
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.8" x 10.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher