American Animated Films: The Silent Era, 1897-1929
- ISBN-10
- 0899504604
- ISBN-13
- 9780899504605
- Category
- Performing Arts / Film / General
- Pages
- 208
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1990
- Publisher
- McFarland & Company
- Author
- Denis Gifford
Description
Arranged chronologically by series, this is the first complete annotated listing of all the animated films produced in the United States before the advent of sound. The book forms a companion volume to the author's British Animated Films 1895-1985 and will prove a boon to researchers of the history and development of animation. In this volume is information that has been scattered and virtually inaccessible for more than half a century.
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