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Letter from Lloyd S. Bower to Ralph Dann, January 19, 1934
No full textBower asks Dann if Schowe can get him a job in Akron with the Civil Works Administration after being laid off by Firestone during the Great DepressionMade available in DSpace on 2005-08-23T22:34:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 9
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Dallas Bower: a producer for television's early years, 1936-39
No full textHaving worked in the film industry as a sound technician and then director, Dallas Bower (1907-99) was appointed in 1936 as one of two senior producers at the start of the BBC Television service. Over the next three years Bower produced as well as directed many ground-breaking live programmes, including the opening-day broadcast on 2 November 1936; the BBC Television Demonstration Film (1937, his only surviving pre-war production); a modern-dress Julius Caesar (1938), in uniforms suggestive of a Fascist disctatorship; Act II of Tristan and Isolde (1938); Patrick Hamilton’s play Rope (1939), utilising extended single camera-shots camera-shots; numerous ballets, among them Checkmate (1938); and ambitious outside broadcasts from the film studios at Denham and Pinewood.
Developing the working practices of producing for the theatre, film industry and radio, Bower was a key figure in defining the role of the creative television producer at the start of the medium. Among his innovations, according to his unpublished autobiographical fragment ‘Playback’ (written 1995), was the introduction of a drawn studio plan for the four cameras employed in all live broadcasts from Alexandra Palace.
Using Bower’s writings (among them his 1936 book Plan for Cinema), his BECTU History Project interview, the BBC Written Archives and contemporary industry coverage, this article reconstructs the early development of the role of staff television producer in order to consider the questions of autonomy, agency and institutional constraints at the BBC in the pre-war years
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Bertha Muzzy Bower
No full textBertha Muzzy Bower was perhaps the first female author of mass-market Western fiction. In her lifetime, Bower wrote sixty-eight Western novels under an androgynous nom de plume, a mandate made by her early publisher Street & Smith in order to conceal her gender from readers. While it is difficult to accurately assess the massive popularity of these novels, her works—particularly her Flying U novels—attracted the attention of several Hollywood producers and were regularly adapted into films. Her most popular novel, Chip, of the Flying U, seemed to have been a favorite among moviemakers, as it was adapted four times. As most scholarship on Bower focuses on her literary career, information on her work in cinema remains sketchy and indeterminable. Nonetheless, several sources tell us that Bower was attracted to cinema and particularly to the Hollywood Western. According to Orrin Engen, Bower believed that “the early cowboys of the films projected the essential vitality of life on the range” (11). Outside of the film adaptations, her ties to Hollywood seem tangential at best, though she also worked as a scenario writer and screenwriter, collaborating extensively with director Colin Campbell and cowboy actor Tom Mix
Bower, L E, VX34955
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/372903Surname: BOWER
Given Name(s) or Initials: L E
Military Service Number or Last Known Location: VX34955
Missing, Wounded and Prisoner of War Enquiry Card Index Number: 32439183945
Item: [2016.0049.05226] "Bower, L E, VX34955
Bower, Steve A, VX30485
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/372902Surname: BOWER
Given Name(s) or Initials: STEVE A
Military Service Number or Last Known Location: VX30485
Missing, Wounded and Prisoner of War Enquiry Card Index Number: 28488183944
Item: [2016.0049.05225] "Bower, Steve A, VX30485
Bower, Alexander William, NX68961
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/372900Surname: BOWER
Given Name(s) or Initials: ALEXANDER WILLIAM
Military Service Number or Last Known Location: NX68961
Missing, Wounded and Prisoner of War Enquiry Card Index Number: 25147183942
Item: [2016.0049.05223] "Bower, Alexander William, NX68961
Bower-Miles, N A, 175251
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/372908Surname: BOWER-MILES
Given Name(s) or Initials: N A
Military Service Number or Last Known Location: 175251
Missing, Wounded and Prisoner of War Enquiry Card Index Number: SEA-4952183950
Item: [2016.0049.05231] "Bower-Miles, N A, 175251
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