Working as a stagehand at NBC for 30 years gave author John Harty Jr., ’69, an inside look into the world of television and film and eventually inspired his creation of “The Cinematic Challenge, Filming Colonial America,” a nonfiction, survey history of the making of motion pictures about colonial America.
These colonial films were important as expressions of the filmmakers’ interpretation of the historical facts and as signposts of the social-political environment within the United States.
Volume 1 contains in-depth case studies of four films from the 1930s and 1940s: “The Last of the Mohicans,” “Drums Along the Mohawk,” “Northwest Passage” and “Unconquered.” Relating the colonial films to the broader historical and cultural context within which they were made will help the reader understand why so few colonial films have been made and how difficult the road was to critical and financial success.
“The Cinematic Challenge” was released by Langdon Press and is available at cinematicchallenge.com, Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com.
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