Movies and Hollywood Short Story Collection, Volume 1: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Movies and Hollywood Short Story Collection, Volume 1, credited to Various, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox presents the Movies and Hollywood Short Story Collection, Volume 1. Read by volunteer readers. Fiction about (or involving) motion pictures started appearing in the late nineteenth-century, when writers first became aware of early kinetoscope technologies. These stories grew more and more popular as the public became increasingly fascinated with the movies, the film industry, and the odd inhabitants of Hollywood. These stories reflect and often respond to the public's fascination with the movies; at the same time, they also reveal their fears and anxieties about the new medium. The first volume of this anthology collects 16 short stories and a monologue about motion picture technology and the film industry published between 1895 and 1922. (Summary by ChuckW) Collected in this anthology: * "The Kinetoscope of Time," by Brander Matthews (1895) * "The Phantasmograph," by Walter Herries Pollock (1899) * "The Vitagraphoscope," by O. Henry (1904) * "Mrs. Bathurst," by Rudyard Kipling (1904) * "Alarums and Excursions," by George Hibbard (1908) * "The Punishment that Fitted the Crime," by Stephen J. Fay (1910) * "The Metamorphosed Bi-Focal Drama," by Lloyd Kenyon Jones (1911) * "A Motion Picture Hero," by Epes Winthrop Sargent (1912) * "The Moving Picture Writes," by Montague Glass (1915) * "The Flash Back," by Harry Reichenbach (1917) * "Co-Stars," by Charles McMurdy (1918) * "The Film of Fate," by Josephine Daskam Bacon (1919) * "Pictures," by Katherine Mansfield (1920) * "His Smile," Susan Glaspell (1921) * "Alice in Movieland," by William Warren (1922) * "The Tramp," by Adela Rogers St. Johns (1922) * "Maisie at the Movies," by Gertrude S. Welton (1922)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Movies and Hollywood Short Story Collection, Volume 1
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 20
• Listed recording duration: 7:46:51

Catalogue topics

• fiction
• short stories
• Hollywood
• motion pictures
• film
• stardom
• celebrity
• movies

Track guide

1. 01 - The Kinetoscope of Time — 30:47
2. 02 - The Phantasmograph — 37:46
3. 03 - The Vitagraphoscope — 6:48
4. 04 - Mrs. Bathurst (part one) — 25:35
5. 05 - Mrs. Bathurst (part two) — 22:37
6. 06 - Alarums and Excursions — 31:19
7. 07 - The Punishment that Fitted the Crime — 6:27
8. 08 - The Metamorphosed Bi-Focal Drama — 34:36
9. 09 - A Motion Picture Hero — 18:56
10. 10 - The Moving Picture Writes (part one) — 27:04
11. 11 - The Moving Picture Writes (part two) — 23:16
12. 12 - The Flash Back — 22:12
13. 13 - Co-Stars — 10:33
14. 14 - The Film of Fate (part one) — 29:12
15. 15 - The Film of Fate (part two) — 23:56
16. 16 - Pictures — 21:23
17. 17 - His Smile — 27:37
18. 18 - Alice in Movieland — 11:58
19. 19 - The Tramp — 48:19
20. 20 - Maisie at the Movies — 6:39

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