When The Cock Crows A History Of The Path Exchange Richard Lewis Ward by Richard Lewis Ward 9780809334964, 9780809334971, 0809334968, 0809334976 instant download after payment.

Influential during Hollywood’s silent-film era, the Pathé Exchange was a
multinational film company with a production and distribution model
very different from the self-contained units of most major studios. When the Cock Crows: A History of the Pathé Exchange,
by Richard Lewis Ward, tells the unconventional story of this unique
company, examining its triumphs and failures on the margins of the
Hollywood system and its legacy in the movie business.
Ward
traces the company’s turbulent evolution from its roots as an American
distributor for Pathé Frères, its French parent studio, through its many
subsequent changes in ownership, to its final years under the
controversial leadership of Joseph P. Kennedy and the eventual merger of
the company’s production department with RKO. Included are the stories
of the unlikely survival of Pathé’s nonproduction assets, such as Pathé
Industries, Inc., Pathé-America Distributing Co., Inc., and Pathé
Communications Corporation, which continued to operate as part of the
industry long after the Exchange had ceased to exist. Ward also provides
a fascinating glimpse into the silent movie era and the business and
creative decisions that led the Exchange to fail.
Film
historians have largely ignored the Pathé Exchange, despite its having
produced some of the most famous early serials (including The Perils of Pauline)
and distributed the first films of comedy legends Harold Lloyd, Harry
Langdon, Laurel and Hardy, and Our Gang. When the Cock Crows reveals the
promise and peril of early Hollywood and establishes the company’s
vital place in film history, creating a more vivid picture of this era.