Search Results: the talkies era a pictorial history by reade eric

Lansdowne Press, Melbourne 1972 hardcover, 8¾" x 11¼", with dust jacket VERY GOOD book in VERY GOOD unclipped dust jacket This book presents some of the best stills from Australian films 1930 - 1960, drawn from private collections and National Archives. Here is the story of the adventurers who made feature films on a shoestring budget and founded shaky film empires which stood or fell on the whim of the public and theatre-owners. Men such as Frank W Thring, Ken G Hall, Charles Chauvel, Pat Hannan and Noel Monkman kept the industry alive. As packed book weighs 1¼kgs (3lbs), slightly-higher-than-usual shipping costs apply.