Gold, Violet, Black, Crimson, White av David Hewitt

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<p>The early days of cinema certainly weren¿t black and white, and if the films were silent, the audiences were anything but.</p><p>This spellbinding book reveals just what was seen ¿ and heard, and said ¿ in the picture houses of Britain at that time.</p><p>It is a gaudy, raucous, rancorous, glorious world.</p><p>And it is the world into which <em>Five Nights</em> emerged.</p><p>Hugely controversial, and the subject of a bitter court case, that film hasn¿t been seen for a hundred years. But in these pages it comes to life again.</p><p>Drawing on long-forgotten documents, David Hewitt reconstructs the film and places it in a setting of his own creation, in the process holding up a kaleidoscope from a different age.</p><p>There are actors and actresses here, film producers and film directors. But there are suffragettes and Zeppelins as well, Pimple and Winky, Chinese women ¿ both real and imagined ¿ and countless men trying to make you think they are Charlie Chaplin.</p><p>This is a hea