Eyes of the Movie: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Eyes of the Movie, credited to Harry Alan Potamkin, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Eyes of the Movie by Harry Alan Potamkin. Read in English by Chuck Williamson "The movie was born in the laboratory and reared in the counting-house. It is a benevolent monster of four I's: Inventor, Investor, Impresario, Imperialist." So begins Harry Alan Potamkin's The Eyes of the Movie, a posthumously published indictment of Hollywood. It is a savage socialist critique of the film industry, its practices, and products. Potamkin takes aim at the "conservative element" infiltrating Hollywood's dream factory, investigating mainstream cinema's double function as propaganda and "passing amusement." (Summary by ChuckW)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Eyes of the Movie
• Author credits: Harry Alan Potamkin
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 4
• Listed recording duration: 1:51:32

Catalogue topics

• politics
• socialism
• film
• cinema
• movies
• Hollywood
• film industry
• political pamphlet

Track guide

1. 1 - Section One — 20:04
2. 2 - Section Two — 17:47
3. 3 - Section Three — 46:00
4. 4 - Section Four — 27:41

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