Don Jose and the early Philippine Cinema : Volume One of the Trilogy History of the Philippine Cinema / Joe Quirino.

By: Material type: TextTextQuezon City : Phoenix Pub., 1983Description: x, 126 pages : illustrations 26 cmContent type:
  • text
Carrier type:
  • volume
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PN 1998.P6 .Q48 1983
Summary: This book is the first of a trilogy on the history of the Philippine cinema. Part II, is titled Doc Perez and the Postwar Cinema. It deals with the story of Dr. Jose ("Pinggot") Perez, the Sampaguita Pictures executive who revolutionized Philippine movies by installing the "studio system" patterned after that of Hollywood's Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures when that studio was at its zenith. Part II also deals with the Big Four (Sampaguita, LVN, Premiere, and Lebran), the four major film studios after the war. Covering a period from the 1940s to the 1970s, Doc Perez and the Postwar CInema will also have capsule biographies of the superstars of that era, some of whom are still very much around, luminaries like Fernando Poe, Jr., Dolphy, Vilma Santos, Nora Aunor, Rita Gomez, Charito Solis, Ramon Revilla, Pancho Magalona, Rogelio de la Rosa, Amalia Fuentes, Susan Roces, Chiquito, Carmern Rosales, Joseph Estrada, Niño Mulach, Snooky, and Tessie Agana, among many others, most of whom discovered by Doc Perez and had their early training in the Sampaguita studio of Pinggot. --From the preface
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Isagani R. Cruz Collection Isagani R. Cruz Collection Aklatang Emilio Aguinaldo-Information Resource Center PN 1998.P6 .Q48 1983 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not for loan 3IRC0000000209

This book is the first of a trilogy on the history of the Philippine cinema. Part II, is titled Doc Perez and the Postwar Cinema. It deals with the story of Dr. Jose ("Pinggot") Perez, the Sampaguita Pictures executive who revolutionized Philippine movies by installing the "studio system" patterned after that of Hollywood's Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures when that studio was at its zenith. Part II also deals with the Big Four (Sampaguita, LVN, Premiere, and Lebran), the four major film studios after the war. Covering a period from the 1940s to the 1970s, Doc Perez and the Postwar CInema will also have capsule biographies of the superstars of that era, some of whom are still very much around, luminaries like Fernando Poe, Jr., Dolphy, Vilma Santos, Nora Aunor, Rita Gomez, Charito Solis, Ramon Revilla, Pancho Magalona, Rogelio de la Rosa, Amalia Fuentes, Susan Roces, Chiquito, Carmern Rosales, Joseph Estrada, Niño Mulach, Snooky, and Tessie Agana, among many others, most of whom discovered by Doc Perez and had their early training in the Sampaguita studio of Pinggot. --From the preface

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