Film History: An International Journal (Vol. 3, No. 2; 1989) [cover: William Cameron Menzies]

Washington DC: Taylor & Francis. Near Fine. 1989. (Vol. 3, No. 2). Journal. [a nice clean copy, with light handling wear only]. (B&W photographs, facsimiles) Scholarly journal of cinema history. In this issue: "Phantasmagorical Wonders: The Magic Lantern Ghost Show in Nineteenth-Century America," by X. Theodore Barber; "Reconstructing the 'Script in Sketch Form': An Analysis of the Narrative Construction and Production Design of the Fire Sequence in GONE WITH THE WIND," by Alan David Vertrees; "Klever Komedies in the Great War: One Studio's Contribution to the War Effort," by Stephen R. Webb; "'A Good Emotional Hook': Selling SIGN OF THE PAGAN to the American Media" (a reprint of the full text of an internal studio memo on the marketing of this 1954 film directed by Douglas Sirk); "Forty-five Years of Picture Making: An Interview with Cecil B. DeMille," by George C. Pratt, with an introduction by Herbert Reynolds (this previously-unpublished interview was conducted in 1958, and was one of DeMille's last formal interviews); "The Hammond French Film Script Archive at New York University," by Robert M. Hammond; book reviews, including a review of the 1911-1920 volume of The American Film Institute Catalog. .