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Hollywood's Epic Battle Between Innovation and the Status Quo, from Thomas Edison to Steve Jobs
Author Self-Published
May 2008
On Sale: May 15, 2008
218 pages ISBN: 1438209991 EAN: 9781438209999 Paperback
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Non-Fiction
From Edison to the iPod, from the Warner Brothers to George
Lucas, the story of how the movies became America's
favorite form of escapist entertainment - and retained
their hold on our imaginations for more than a century - is
a story of innovators prevailing again and again over
skeptics who prefer to preserve the status quo. Inventing
the Movies unspools the never-before-told story of the
innovators who shaped Hollywood: how a chance meeting at
the Saratoga Race Track led to the end of black-and-white
movies ... how Bing Crosby brought you the VCR ... how Walt
Disney tamed television ... how a shotgun blast signaled
the end of hand-made models and the beginning of digital
special effects ... and how even the almighty Morgan
Freeman had trouble persuading theater-owners that the
Internet wasn't their mortal enemy. Inventing the Movies is
an important read not just for fans of Hollywood's history,
but for innovators trying to make change happen in any
industry.
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