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This book brings to life the 60-plus year Urban Legend of the infamous weekend between Orson Welles and the Oscar winning cinematographer, Gregg Toland (Wuthering Heights, Citizen Kane). Guaranteed to provoke controversy as it instructs and entertains, this ""graphic textbook"" deftly merges the fictionalized account of an Orson Welles and Gregg Toland Hollywood weekend with all of the basic ABCs of cinematography.

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Library Journal Review

Verdict: This heavily illustrated book is a fictionalized dialog between cinematographer Gregg Toland and Orson Welles. Unfortunately, it is in many ways a prurient, misogynistic flight of fancy that teaches little if anything about cinematography. Not recommended. Background: There is an apocryphal story that Toland approached Welles when he was newly arrived in Hollywood and taught the enfant terrible of stage and radio everything he needed to know about cinematography in half an hour. Accomplished and prolific cinematographer Worth here spins that dialog out over a debauched weekend. He seems far more interested in the drinking and fornicating habits of his characters (always with the caveat that they had imported whiskey and expensive whores) than their filmmaking challenges and talents or individual character. Talk of lenses and film are at best incidental to descriptions of prostitutes hired for their resemblance to stars of the day. The conceit of this imaginary encounter and a love of bad old Hollywood get in the way of his conveying real information.--Christian Zabriskie, Queens P.L., New York (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.