Hollywood Vault: Film Libraries Before Home Video

by Eric Hoyt

Book Overview

Hollywood Vault is the story of how the business of film libraries emerged and evolved, spanning the silent era to the sale of feature libraries to television. Eric Hoyt argues that film libraries became valuable not because of the introduction of new technologies but because of the emergence and growth of new markets, and suggests that studying the history of film libraries leads to insights about their role in the contemporary digital marketplace...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520282647
• ISBN13: 9780520282643
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"