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Title: Robert Goldstein and 'The Spirit of '76'
Condition: New
Author: Robert Goldstein, Anthony Slide
Format: Hardback
ISBN-10: 0810826747
EAN: 9780810826748
ISBN: 9780810826748
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Genre: History
Topic: Military History
Release Date: 01/06/1993
Description: Impressed by the success of The Birth of a Nation, Robert Goldstein, owner of a well-known Los Angeles costume supply house, produced his own epic film drama, The Spirit of '76 and screened it in Los Angeles shortly after America's entry into World War I. The film was denounced as anti-British and treasonous. Arrested under the Espionage Act, Goldstein became the first and only American jailed for the crime of producing a patriotic film. Film historian Tony Slide includes an introductory essay, reprints contemporary documentation, and publishes a 1927 manuscript by Goldstein, in which he fully documents the background to the film, its making, his arrest and trial, and his later suffering.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 229mm
Item Length: 152mm
Item Width: 25mm
Item Weight: 454g
Book Series: Scarecrow Filmmakers Series
Release Year: 1993

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