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Magic Moments from the Movies
Elwy Yost has carried on a lifelong love affair with the movies. Here's a wonderful grab bag of his favorite movie memories: scenes, shots, and film sequences that stand out a the silver screen's greatest moments.
Who could ever forget the last shot of Chaplin in City Lights? Or Orson Welles smiling sardonically in the Legendary montage from Citizen Kane? Or Gary Cooper walking down a deserted main street on his way to a gunfight in High Noon? MAGIC MOMENTS brings them all back vividly.
The 148 films in this collection span the whole history of the movies—from silent films through the heyday of Hollywood in the thirties and forties, right up through the seventies. Each is full of magic moments that belong to all of us, and inveterate movie-fan Elwy Yost recalls them all in this delightfully refreshing look at the art of film.
Who could ever forget the last shot of Chaplin in City Lights? Or Orson Welles smiling sardonically in the Legendary montage from Citizen Kane? Or Gary Cooper walking down a deserted main street on his way to a gunfight in High Noon? MAGIC MOMENTS brings them all back vividly.
The 148 films in this collection span the whole history of the movies—from silent films through the heyday of Hollywood in the thirties and forties, right up through the seventies. Each is full of magic moments that belong to all of us, and inveterate movie-fan Elwy Yost recalls them all in this delightfully refreshing look at the art of film.
246 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1978
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February 18, 2024
Elwy was a good friend and colleague.
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