Slow Fade to Black
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Slow Fade to Black
By Thomas CrippsTony Langston to GPJ, Aug. 10, 1916; penciled on back: “proposition accepted. Make own contracts,” in GPJC. 24 CE, Oct. 14, 1916. The firefight came at the height of Mexican-American tension, with America caught between German intrigue ...
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Slow Fade to Black: The Negro in American Film, 1900-1942
By Thomas Cripps... Bob Thomas of Associated Press, Hollywood; Professors Frank Gatell and Paul Worthman of UCLA; Walter Burrell, then of Universal Pictures; Professor Russell Merritt of the University of Wisconsin; David H. Shepard of Blackhawk Films, ...
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Slow Fade to Black: The Decline of RKO Radio Pictures
By Richard B. JewellHe did a respectable job, working from a script by Emmet Lavery that damned the Nazis by emphasizing their inhuman treatment of Germany's youth. The film contained a number of sensationalistic elements—for example, the flogging of an ...
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Slow Fade to Black
By Thomas CrippsSet against the backdrop of the black struggle in society, Slow Fade to Black is the definitive history of African-American accomplishment in film--both before and behind the camera--from the earliest movies through World War II. As he ...
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Slow Fade to Black: The Decline of RKO Radio Pictures
By Richard B. JewellWald then reminded Hughes that he had “previously turned down SADIE THOMPSON for Jane Russell.”85 Hughes indicated he would think about it and get back to Wald but did not respond for six weeks. He then called Wald at eleven at night on ...
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Slow Fade to Black: The Decline of RKO Radio Pictures
By Richard B. JewellThis second volume charts the studio’s fortunes, which peaked during World War II, declined in the postwar period, and finally collapsed in the 1950s.