Downriver: A Tale of Moving Pictures Before Hollywood Volume 1 - Anderson, Evan
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Anne Blackstone is a sixteen year old girl from a small Missouri River town at the turn of the twentieth century. Suddenly orphaned, she is sent to a "school" run by the black-clad members of the Ladies' Aid Society. She escapes, leaves town with the company of a traveling showboat, and later joins a touring motion picture exhibitor. Along the way, Anne learns the craft of directing: for the stage, then for the infant industry of moving pictures, pre-Hollywood. She enters the field before it becomes a big business, when motion picture language was being written, and when women, even from a…mehr

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Anne Blackstone is a sixteen year old girl from a small Missouri River town at the turn of the twentieth century. Suddenly orphaned, she is sent to a "school" run by the black-clad members of the Ladies' Aid Society. She escapes, leaves town with the company of a traveling showboat, and later joins a touring motion picture exhibitor. Along the way, Anne learns the craft of directing: for the stage, then for the infant industry of moving pictures, pre-Hollywood. She enters the field before it becomes a big business, when motion picture language was being written, and when women, even from a lower class, had access to its creative tools. Downriver gives readers the experience of what it was like to be alive at the origins of an industry which is, today, so much a part of our lives.
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Evan Anderson has been a writer since being inspired by his Junior High English teacher and the writers Herman Hesse, C.S. Lewis and Ray Bradbury, who he had the privilege of meeting on several occasions. In his hometown of Los Angeles he was the editor of "Spectrum" magazine, and a member of the Artists Repertory Theater in West Hollywood. After moving to upstate New York he helped initiate the Glaring Omissions, a writer's group that continues to this day. Evan was one of four New York writers to read at the Festival of the Coffeehouse Poets in Ontario. In 2002 he was selected as one of 23 Hudson Valley authors for inclusion in the short fiction collection, Prima Materia. He also wrote special material for children's theater, and scripts for "The Adventures of Marjorie," an homage to radio series of the 1940's. "Downriver" is his first novel.