Movies and Hollywood Short Story Collection, Volume 1

Author(s): Various

Genre(s): General Fiction, Short Stories

Narrators: Scott Dawson, CaprishaPage, Ferngirl, Cliff Thompson, Kandice Stehlik, Cynthia Moyer, Aidan Brack, Alex Lau, Debmiester, Samantha J Gubitz, J. Carl Brown, Stephanie Kydd, Sherri Vance, Elizabeth Klett, Bellona Times, Amanda Friday

Number of Chapters: 20

Length: 7 hours and 46 minutes

Language: English

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)