Movies and Hollywood Short Story Collection, Volume 1
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Fiction about (or involving) motion pictures started appearing in the late nineteenth-century, when writers first became aware of early kinetoscope technologies. These stories grew more and more popular as the public became increasingly fascinated with the movies, the film industry, and the odd inhabitants of Hollywood. These stories reflect and often respond to the public's fascination with the movies; at the same time, they also reveal their fears and anxieties about the new medium. The first volume of this anthology collects 16 short stories and a monologue about motion picture technology and the film industry published between 1895 and 1922. (Summary by ChuckW) (7 hr 46 min)
Chapters
The Kinetoscope of Time | 30:46 | Read by Scott Dawson |
The Phantasmograph | 37:46 | Read by CaprishaPage |
The Vitagraphoscope | 6:48 | Read by ferngirl |
Mrs. Bathurst | 25:34 | Read by Cliff Thompson |
Mrs. Bathurst (part two) | 22:36 | Read by kandice stehlik |
Alarums and Excursions | 31:18 | Read by Cynthia Moyer |
The Punishment that Fitted the Crime | 6:27 | Read by Aidan Brack |
The Metamorphosed Bi-Focal Drama | 34:36 | Read by Alex Lau |
A Motion Picture Hero | 18:56 | Read by kandice stehlik |
The Moving Picture Writes | 27:04 | Read by Debmiester |
The Moving Picture Writes (part two) | 23:15 | Read by Samantha J Gubitz |
The Flash Back | 22:12 | Read by Cynthia Moyer |
Co-Stars | 10:33 | Read by J. Carl Brown |
The Film of Fate | 29:11 | Read by CaprishaPage |
The Film of Fate (part two) | 23:55 | Read by CaprishaPage |
Pictures | 21:22 | Read by Stephanie Kydd |
His Smile | 27:37 | Read by Sherri Vance |
Alice in Movieland | 11:58 | Read by Elizabeth Klett |
The Tramp | 48:19 | Read by Bellona Times |
Maisie at the Movies: A Monologue | 6:38 | Read by Amanda Friday |