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READERSVOICE.COM aims to sample a few paragraphs from interesting out of print books. Lennie Lower (1903-47) was an Australian humor writer. Here are some samples from his columns in the Australian Women’s Weekly, written during the Depression and WW2. See Humour in the Weekly, published by Currey O’Neil in 1983. On inventions: I said to […]
In addition to giving a lot of interesting detail about car research and development, and business, My Life and Work by Henry Ford, has some of Henry Ford’s philosophy of getting on in the world. The book was published 1923. He writes: Fear is the reliance placed on something outside – on a foreman’s good-will, […]
For some X-Files type stories, The Books of Charles Fort might be of some interest. Charles Fort was born in 1874, Albany, New York; died 1932, The Bronx. He was a collector of news items of strange phenomena. Melbourne Argus, Feb.23, and March 1, 1890 – a wandering monster. A list of names and addresses […]
READERSVOICE.COM aims to give a few samples from interesting out of print books. In historian Stan Hugill’s 1967 book Sailortown, he includes a letter sent to him by a German named Charlie Muller, aged 91. He described the piers on South Street, New York, in the 1890s. The old sailor wrote: A street I knew […]
READERSVOICE.COM continues with another interesting sample from an out of print book… Three Years with Eisenhower, the personal diary of Captain Harry S. Butcher, USNR, was published in 1946. The author was with General Eisenhower during World War Two. When they were based in London, Eisenhower told the author to keep a diary of everything […]
READERSVOICE.COM gives samples from high quality out of print books. The Battle for the Pacific by Donald Macintyre, was published in 1966. The author, Captain Macintyre, was a destroyer-commander during WW2. He turned historian and he gives a lot of authoritative details of battles like Guadalcanal and the Coral Sea. It’s good writing and the […]
READERSVOICE.COM aims to give a few samples from old and out of print books. This issue features a 1934-35 annual of Chums Magazine. It was aimed at school age lads in England. Many of the articles are clear and informative and probably haven’t dated that much. Here’s an article by Horace Richards called The Beginning […]
Chums film writer Horace Richards writes about treatments of the adaptation… Mr Richards wrote that the average length of a film drama was rarely more than an hour and a half. There was just not time to include the whole novel or original story. And the film had to alter the book to allow extra […]
Film writer for Chums Magazine, 1934-35 annual, Horace Richards writes about sequences… Sequences are the separate parts of the story which, when put together, make the story as a whole. Every sequence has to have a climax on which the camera can fade-out. For instanc, we have the hero and the villain meeting for the […]
Film writer for Chums magazine, 1934-35 annual, Horace Richards gives an example of a sequence broken up into scenes and for continuity… Mr Richards wrote: It may read something like this: Scene 20. Sequence D. Long Shot. Cliff Exterior. Day. Brown walks towards Green. Stops; holds out hand. Green ignores it. Brown: “How are you?” […]