The War The West and The Wilderness

Here from one of todays leading authorities on film history is the story told brilliantly and for the first time of the pioneering movie makers who as early as 1905 traveled beyond the studio stages to make feature films on locationand in so doing recorded the real history and real life of their time. The War the West and the Wilderness is the result of more than a decade of passionate research by Kevin Brownlow whose last book The Parades Gone By… (hailed by Charles Champlin as the definitive work on the silent era) is regarded as a classic history of early motion pictures. His new book is alive with the voices of the film-makers themselves in their logbooks in their letters and diaries in their firsthand accounts of their adventurous journeys and cinematic innovations andeven more immediatein Brownlows interviews with cameramen directors lighting technicians and actors who relive those days taking us with them to the Great War to the West ad into the Wilderness. It is the triumph of this book to reconstruct the dramatic moments when these men and women contrived against ordinary odds to bring to movie audiences for the first time the look the feelthe actualityof large events and distant places from the great battles of World War I to the South Seas with Jack London aboard the Shark and the gold rush in Tonopah Nevada.