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Gold, Violet, Black, Crimson, White (Paperback)
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Gold, Violet, Black, Crimson, White (Paperback)
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The early days of cinema certainly weren't black and white, and if
the films were silent, the audiences were anything but. This
spellbinding book reveals just what was seen - and heard, and said
- in the picture houses of Britain at that time. It is a gaudy,
raucous, rancorous, glorious world. And it is the world into which
Five Nights emerged. Hugely controversial, and the subject of a
bitter court case, that film hasn't been seen for a hundred years.
But in these pages it comes to life again. Drawing on
long-forgotten documents, David Hewitt reconstructs the film and
places it in a setting of his own creation, in the process holding
up a kaleidoscope from a different age. There are actors and
actresses here, film producers and film directors. But there are
suffragettes and Zeppelins as well, Pimple and Winky, Chinese women
- both real and imagined - and countless men trying to make you
think they are Charlie Chaplin. This is a heady world, where
everyone speaks at once and a young woman can direct a film of her
own. But anyone can lose everything at the whim of a constable or a
magistrate - or at the hands of an angry mob. It is a world of
eyots and dulcitones, psalterium, imortelles and bhang. You might
think it a familiar world, but it has surely never seemed so
strange. The author, David Hewitt, can be found on his Twitter
handle: @historycalled
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