Buy this book on-line CHAPMAN, GORDON: : DEVON AT THE CINEMA: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF CINEMA GOINGUK.TIVERTON,DEVON.DEVON BOOKS,2000. ISBN 1855227584.
UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[DEVON BOOKS is the official publisher to DEVON COUNTY COUNCIL.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Crisp,bright,clean,glossy laminated,b/w photographic colour illustrated montaged dw/dj design; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore -edges bright and clean; contents bright, tight and pristine - an unread copy? Bright,clean, unblemished,publisher's original black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn,4-160pp [paginated] includes b/w scenic photograph vignette illustrated half-title page,b/w illus vignetted title page,2 b/w small+large town cinema plans,8 chapters on Devon at the Cinema - the first 100 years, Devon cinema c1895-1914, 1914-1919,1920-23, 1924-35, 1936-39, 1940-45,and 1946-1995 respectively,b/w county cinema location maps,profuse b/w location photographs, b/w illustrations throughout the text and the book,a conclusion,a selected bibliography and an index.
A silver-screen world of wonder and make- believe.It is difficult to over-emphasize what an impact the arrival of movies had on the people of Devon.For the first time here was an entertainment that could reach into the most remote villages,bringing flickering visions of worlds previously beyond imagining.From daily newsreels of the silent era,to the Golden Age of cinema in the 1930's and 40's,the people of Devon came to know the stars of the silver screen whose glamorous and romantic lives became the talk of schoolyard and village square.
In this remarkable book,Gordon Chapman,provides a complete illustrated history of the cinema in Devon,from the days in which barns were used for makeshift screenings to the building of the modern multiplexes. Devon at the Cinema chronicles the early years of filmgoing,when the screen was a simple sheet pinned up in a local barn. From Barnstaple to Budleigh Salterton, every known cinema building has been indentified and illustrated,from Rex to Regal,and Scala to Savoy.Here too are stories and interviews from the people of Devon revealing just how important the movies were, and still are,in their lives. An illustrated story of the cinema in Devon is long overdue.It is a reminder of the power of the film and its effect on a largely rural population,and an important record of the architectural diversity of picture-houses,many of which no longer exist.It is also a social history, recalling through the words of Devon people their memories of ice-cream tubs and Kia-ora,and of courting couples caught in the beam of the usherette's torch.
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