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Film Homage Embassy Newsreel Theater 1940 Times Square New York City 2008 Acrylic Print featuring the photograph Film Homage Embassy Newsreel Theater 1940 Times Square New York City 2008 #1 by David Lee Guss

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Film Homage Embassy Newsreel Theater 1940 Times Square New York City 2008 #1 Acrylic Print

David Lee Guss

by David Lee Guss

$79.00

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Film Homage Embassy Newsreel Theater 1940 Times Square New York City 2008 #1 acrylic print by David Lee Guss.   Bring your artwork to life with the stylish lines and added depth of an acrylic print. Your image gets printed directly onto the back of a 1/4" thick sheet of clear acrylic. The high gloss of the acrylic sheet complements the rich colors of any image to produce stunning results. Two different mounting options are available, see below.

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Newsreels were started by Pathe Freres in 1908 in France. A year later the Daily Bioscope opened in London, devoted to only showing newsreels.... more

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Artist's Description

Newsreels were started by Pathe Freres in 1908 in France. A year later the Daily Bioscope opened in London, devoted to only showing newsreels. 



It took another 20 years for the first newsreel theater to be established in the United States when William Fox purchased the Embassy Theater in Times Square, and transformed it into the screening of newsreels.



In 1925 Fox had devised a way of adding optical sound tracks directly on the film. Warner Brothers with their October 1927 release of the part talkie "The Jazz Singer," employed the Vitaphone system, using separate discs synchronized to the film. 



Fox's sound on film method was much more reliable. Celebrated Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw graced the Movietone camera in 1928. 



www.youtube.com/watch?v=40VegR6uaTI&p=C675B3660FD8B49...

The series Fox Movietone News spanned 1928-1963, closing down shortly after capturing the assassination of John F. Kennedy in Dallas...

About David Lee Guss

David Lee Guss

I first became obsessed with photography and motion pictures while growing up in post WW2 Manila in the Philippine Islands in the late 1940's/early 1950's. Film noirs were a particular influence. But my first love remains the theater. I acted in numerous amateur productions from 1958 to 1978. In 1979 I earned a MA in drama from the University of Arizona; earlier getting a BA in English from the University of Minnesota, where I co-founded the first film society on campus and ran it for four years. While at the U of A, I studied with the master black and white photo essayist W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978) the last year of his life. I am the last person cited in Jim Hughes' definitive biography of Gene, as I wrote about attending his final...

 

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