Paramount in Paris: 300 Films Produced at the Joinville Studios, 1930-1933, with Credits and Biographies

by Harry Waldman

The years 1930-1933 were a time of experimentation and change. Sound (in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish) was being added to image by the world's film studios. Motion Picture News warned that foreign-version "talkers" were "the only means of breaking into film markets abroad." Fans around the world made it clear that they were eager to hear movies in their own languages and had little tolerance for sound films in languages other...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810834316
• ISBN13: 9780810834316
• Release Date: March 1998
• Publisher: Scarecrow Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.0"