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Le Catalogue AFI 1941-1950
Le catalogue de films de fiction de la période
1941-1950 de l’American Film Institute est
sorti récemment. La documentation qu’il
contient (4.316 films) en fait un ouvrage de
référence indispensable. Il comporte deux
volumes de textes et un index. Le volume
des indexs (1.362 pages) comprend neuf
sections : chronologie, noms, raisons sociales,
sujet, genre, séries, lieux, auteurs musicaux,
auteurs littéraires et scénaristes. Les trois
livres sont édités par l’University of
California Press. La recherche, coordonnée
par Patricia King Hanson, commença en
1993 à partir d’une base de données établie
en 1991. La source principale de
documentation provient des films euxmêmes.
93% des films ont été visionnés et
7% furent documentés à partir des archives
des studios, des registres de copyright et de
censure, de coupures de presse, etc. Le
personnel de l’AFI travaille déjà sur le
prochain Catalogue AFI, qui couvrira la
période 1951-1960.
Chronological, Personal Name; Corporate Name; Subject; Genre; Series;
Geographic; Songwriter and Composer; and Literary and Dramatic.
4,032 films were viewed for the project.
242,015 Personal Name entries were indexed
The person with the largest number of credits is M-G-M art director
Cedric Gibbons, who had 325 credits. The actor with the largest number
of credits is character actor Emmett Vogan, who appeared in 221 films in
the 1940s.
85,578 Subject terms were indexed.
Prominent Names, Genres and Films in Catalog
Popular directors of the era included: Alfred Hitchcock, William Wyler,
Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Stanley Kramer, Preston Sturges, George Cukor,
Frank Capra, Howard Hawks, John Ford, John Huston, Michael Curtiz,
Billy Wilder, Leo McCarey, Otto Preminger, George Stevens, Ernst
Lubitsch, Henry King, Mervyn LeRoy, Sam Wood, Orson Welles and Fred
Zinnemann.
Popular actors of the era included: Gary Cooper, Clark Gable, Ronald
Colman, Gregory Peck, Spencer Tracy, Van Johnson, Gene Kelly, Fred
Astaire, Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, James Stewart, Fred McMurray, Cary
Grant, Humphrey Bogart, John Wayne, Joel McCrea, Randolph Scott,
James Cagney, Tyrone Power, Don Ameche, William Holden, Robert
Mitchum, Kirk Douglas, Glen Ford, Melvyn Douglas, Fredric March,
Walter Pidgeon, Robert Young, Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, John Garfield,
David Niven, William Powell, Dick Powell, Red Skelton, Frank Sinatra,
Joseph Cotton
Popular actresses of the era included: Katharine Hepburn, Irene Dunne,
Loretta Young, Ginger Rogers, Maureen O’Hara, Bette Davis, Olivia de
Havilland, Myrna Loy, Joan Crawford, Hedy Lamarr, Lana Turner, June
Allyson, Dorothy Lamour, Veronica Lake, Esther Williams, Jennifer Jones,
Gene Tierney, Alice Faye, Bette Grable, Rita Hayworth, Claudette Colbert,
Barbara Stanwyck, Jane Wyman, Ingrid Bergman, Susan Hayward,
Dorothy McGuire, Rosalind Russell, Greer Garson, Joan Fontaine, Gene
Arthur, Laraine Day, Ruth Hussey, Marsha Hunt, Doris Day
Representative Film Genres and Titles
War films: Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, Bataan, Wake Island, The Fighting
Seabees, A Guy Named Joe, The Sands of Iwo Jima, A Walk in the Sun, The
Story of G.I. Joe, Action in the North Atlantic, Twelve O’Clock High
War films about life on the homefront: Since You Went Away, Tender
Comrades, The More the Merrier, Mrs. Miniver, Hail the Conquering Hero
Post-war life and post-war adjustment films: The Best Years of Our Lives,
Pride of the Marines, The Men, Bright Victory, Home of the Brave, Till the End
of Time, It Happened on 5th Avenue
Musicals: Yankee Doodle Dandy, Holiday Inn, Meet Me in St. Louis, The
Pirate, Easter Parade, The Gang’s All here, The Dolly Sisters, The Harvey
Girls, State Fair, Mother Wore Tights, On the Town, Talk Me Out to the
Ballgame
108 Journal of Film Preservation / 58/59 / 1999