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September 04, 2008 - Projected History: A Catalog of the U.S. National Stories Released by Universal Newsreel, Volume I, 1929-1930, is a new book by Phillip W. Stewart. This well-researched landmark work details over 1275 nationally released newsreel titles that covered the first two years of what was known back then as the Universal Newspaper Newsreel. This new book will be of great interest to students of history, film and genealogy.
One of the great benefits of Projected History is that all of the Universal Newsreel stores that are known to exist today in the film vaults of the National Archives are noted. This is the first time that the newsreel title, description and story availability, have been brought together in a single resource.
Before there was television, there was the newsreel. People saw the news twice a week in their neighborhood movie theaters. The major American newsreel companies covered a wide variety of world events, politics, sports, fashion, stunts, and whatever else might entertain the movie audience. Today, newsreels offer a fascinating and unique look at that era and are a primary source of visual information and history. Out of the five major sound newsreels that documented America and the World from 1929 to 1967, only one is now owned by the American people, is royalty-free, and readily accessible for your review and use – the Universal Newsreel.
Phillip W. Stewart has spent years reviewing rare historical films at the National Archives and Records Administration. Projected History is his third book on historic films. His first book, the 2008 winner of the Reader Views Award for the best History book of the year and a Finalist Award Winner in the National “BEST BOOK 2007” Awards, Battlefilm: U.S. Army Signal Corps Motion Pictures of the Great War (ISBN 978-0-9793243-2-1) documents 957 reels of WWI action on land, in the air, and on or below the seas. Mr. Stewart’s second work, War Wings: Films of the First Air War (ISBN 978-0-9793243-4-5), chronicles over 2,550 individual scenes of filmed WWI aviation related action.
Projected History: A Catalog of the U.S. National Stories Released by Universal Newsreel, Volume I, 1929-1930, (ISBN 978-0-9793243-8-3; $26.95 trade paper; pms press; 253 pages; 2008), is available directly from the publisher, pms press at www.pmspress.com, and via Amazon.
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