The Fantasy Worlds of Irwin Allen by Jeff Bond Hardcover Book

Description: The Fantasy Worlds of Irwin Allen by Jeff Bond The ultimate guide to the famous productions of Irwin Allen, legendary producer of The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno, featuring over 2,000 exclusive images. FORMAT Hardcover CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description The ultimate guide to the famous productions of Irwin Allen, legendary producer of The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno, featuring over 2,000 exclusive images.This lavish coffee table hardback book is the first and only book of its kind to take a visual journey through the mind and career of legendary producer Irwin Allen, the Master of Disaster the man behind some of the most popular television programs of the 1960s and the visionary who invented the special effects movie blockbuster format with his 1970s hits The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno. It traces Allen from his early days as a Hollywood agent and radio personality to his lengthy stint at 20th Century Fox, where he produced movies such as The Lost World and Five Weeks in a Balloon and the popular television shows Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Lost in Space, The Time Tunnel and Land of the Giants.Allen employed the studios sprawling lot and soundstages, its library of movie footage, costumes and props, and its veteran special effects craftsmen to bring vivid color and movie-quality action, miniature effects and visuals to television viewers accustomed to low-budget, black and white programming. Allens flare for action and visual punch gave audiences some of the 1960s most popular and iconic figures: Admiral Nelson and Captain Crane of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea; the Lost in Space Robot and Jonathan Harris nefarious Dr. Zachary Smith; Will Robinson and the Robinson family of space travellers; the pop art kaleidoscope of The Time Tunnel; the Jupiter 2, the Seaview, the Flying Sub, the Spindrift.Before George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, Irwin Allen broke box office records with two of the biggest movie blockbusters of all time: The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno. Wooed to Warner Bros. at the height of his power with the offer of a building named in his honour and one of the most generous studio contracts ever given a producer, Allen faced his biggest challenge: topping himself with The Swarm, Beyond the Poseidon Adventure, When Time Ran Out, and a series of ambitious projects for television.Illustrated with more than 2000 images including concept and production artwork, storyboards, blueprints, design sketches, miniatures and behind-the-scenes photographs, many of them never before published, this is the ultimate guide to Allens famous productions, from his documentaries The Sea Around Us and The Animal World to his spectacular TV-movie City Beneath the Sea, plus fascinating unproduced projects, all explored in detail for the first time. Author Biography Jeff Bond is Executive Editor of Geek magazine. He covered film music and other subjects for the Hollywood Reporter for ten years, and has written hundreds of movie soundtrack liner notes booklets. Based in California. Review "This new tribute hardback is a fitting retrospective spanning the time when entertainment was indeed golden." - Space.com Details ISBN1835411363 Author Jeff Bond Publisher Titan Books Ltd Year 2024 ISBN-13 9781835411360 Format Hardcover Imprint Titan Books Ltd Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Audience General ISBN-10 1835411363 Pages 612 Publication Date 2024-10-22 UK Release Date 2024-10-22 AU Release Date 2024-10-21 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:162620496;

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