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The Image of Librarians in Cinema, 1917-1999
From its earliest days to the present, the onscreen image of the librarian has remained largely the same. A silent 1921 film set the precedent for two female librarian characters: a dowdy spinster wears glasses and a bun hairstyle, and an attractive young woman is overworked and underpaid. Silent films, however, employed a variety of characteristics for librarians, showed them at work on many different tasks, and featured them in a range of dramatic, romantic, and comedic situations. The sound era (during which librarians appeared in more than 200 films) frequently exaggerated these characteristics and situations, strongly influencing the general image of librarians. This chronologically arr...
The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures
A story of the man who, before he could unveil his invention to the world, mysteriously vanished and was never seen or heard again, lost to history until now, in this never-before-told history of the motion picture.
