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