The Parade's Gone By...

They speak in this book––the pioneering directors (Henry King, Clarence Brown, William Wellman), the stars & producer-stars (Harold Lloyd, Mary Pickford, Geraldine Farrar, Gloria Swanson), the cameramen, the film editors, the creative giants of the silent screen who, flying by the seat of their pants, improvised their films on location, evolved––indeed invented––the techniques & concepts that we take for granted today. With frames & photographs you've never seen before, with pungently alive firsthand recollections, The Parade's Gone By... re-creates the earliest days of the movies, how the first moving pictures were actually shot, how the first film makers responded to the new medium untrammeled by rules & conventions––and turned a crude, fumbling gimmick into art.    

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Kevin Brownlow is a British filmmaker & cinema historian best known for documenting the silent movie era. He has discovered & restored many lost films from the time. For his work, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences presented him with an Academy Honor Award, the first of its kind given to a preservationis t.