Inventing The Movies: Hollywood's Epic Battle Between Innovation And The Status Quo, From Thomas Edison To Steve Jobs [Paperback]
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Scott Kirsner is a journalist and blogger who writes about new ideas and their impact on the world. He edits the blog CinemaTech (http://cinematech.blogspot.com), and is the author of "The Future of Web Video: New Opportunities for Producers, Entrepreneurs, Media Companies and Advertisers," published in March 2007. He writes regularly for Variety and the Boston Globe. Scott’s writing has also appeared in the New York Times, The Hollywood Reporter, Wired, Fast Company, the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, BusinessWeek, and Newsweek, among other publications. Scott regularly speaks and moderates at entertainment industry events, including the Sundance Film Festival, the Toronto International Film Festival, and the South by Southwest Film Festival. He is part of the founding team of The Conversation, a new event geared to exploring the convergence of new technologies and the entertainment industry.
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BY SCOTT KIRSNER. CREATESPACE/2008/218 PP./$15.95 (SB)
In his latest book, Scott Kirsner charts what he calls "Hollywood's epic battle between innovation and the status quo." Film history is full of examples of this antagonism. In 1908 Thomas Edison co-founded the so-called "Trust," an organization aimed at putting movie production under its control. Its members doubted that an audience would tolerate movies longer than twelve minutes, until the renegade filmmaker D. W. Griffith released the three-hour The Birth of a Nation (1915), which was a huge success. When asked about the possibilities of motion pictures with sound, Kodak founder George Eastman famously declared, "The public will never accept it." Resisting color on the screen, "studios... --This text refers to the Digital edition.
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