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Book/Printed Material Metro Pictures Corporation Offers Vicente Blasco Ibáñez' "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse". Metro Pictures Corporation Offers Vicente Blasco Ibáñez' "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse"

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Title

  • Metro Pictures Corporation Offers Vicente Blasco Ibáñez' "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse".

Other Title

  • Metro Pictures Corporation Offers Vicente Blasco Ibáñez' "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse"

Summary

  • This 16-page illustrated booklet issued by the Metro Pictures Corporation is a prospectus describing the making of The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, a film based on the novel of the same name by Spanish author Vicente Blasco Ibáñez. The novel was published in Spain in 1916 with the title Los cuatro jinetes del Apocalipsis and in English translation in 1918. Metro claimed that it was "the most widely read book of all time, excepting the Bible." It tells the story of two sons-in-law of a powerful Argentine landowner, one French and one German, who find themselves fighting on opposite sides during World War I. The booklet includes a list of the cast of the film; a summary of statistics about the "million dollar production;" a summary of the plot of Blasco's novel; a description of how the film was made; photographic portraits of the main actors and actresses in the film; and a gallery of notable scenes. Four of the illustrations are in color. Filmed in Hollywood and released in 1921, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse was a blockbuster that turned Rudolf Valentino into a major star in the world of silent film. Valentino, who plays the landowner's French grandson Julio Desnoyers, is pictured in the booklet alongside Alice Terry, also a star of the silent film era and the wife of director Rex Ingram.

Names

  • Blasco Ibáñez, Vicente, 1867-1928 Originator.
  • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Creator.

Created / Published

  • [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1921.

Headings

  • -  United States of America--California--Los Angeles
  • -  1921
  • -  Actors
  • -  Drama
  • -  Four horsemen of the Apocalypse (Motion picture : 1921)
  • -  Motion pictures
  • -  Promotion

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 12 pages : illustrations, black-and-white and color photographs ; 31 centimeters.
  • -  Original resource at: Valencian Library Nicolau Primitiu.
  • -  Content in English.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Source Collection

  • World War I

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021666989

Online Format

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  • pdf
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Blasco Ibáñez, Vicente, Originator, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Creator. Metro Pictures Corporation Offers Vicente Blasco Ibáñez' "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse". [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, 1921] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021666989/.

APA citation style:

Blasco Ibáñez, V. & Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Creator. (1921) Metro Pictures Corporation Offers Vicente Blasco Ibáñez' "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse". [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021666989/.

MLA citation style:

Blasco Ibáñez, Vicente, Originator, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Creator. Metro Pictures Corporation Offers Vicente Blasco Ibáñez' "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse". [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, 1921] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021666989/>.