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Hollywood's leading aviators were heroic knights of the sky on the screen as well as in real life. These leading aviators performed aerial stunt sequences and acted, plus some wrote and directed motion pictures. Directing giant Cecil B. DeMille was so enthralled with aviation that he owned three airfields. Charlie Chaplin's family airfield also doubled as a motion-picture set. Thomas H. Ince, the famous producer who invented the studio system, owned Ince Airfield, which became the hub of Hollywood aviation. Eternal legends Rudolph Valentino, Oliver Hardy, Harry Houdini, and Mary Pickford performed in aerials. Many aviators gave their lives making motion pictures; three fatalities were incurred for Howard Hughes's great air epic, Hell's Angels. Hughes himself broke records within aircraft and film production. Aviators brought their screen work to life between films through barnstorming. The roaring in 1920s Hollywood was often aviators soaring beyond limits.
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reviewed Aviators in Early Hollywood, California (Images of America Series) on September 18, 2008 Aviators in Early Hollywood, California (Images of America Series)
I've wanted to read this for years and was genuinely looking forward to the experience. Hasselstrom's is a local author and her accounting of the changes facing rural South Dakota is painfully honest. Yet as much as I understand her points and recognize the nostalgia she is recalling, I can't help but feel put off by the broader strokes of her ideas. Exploring what makes and breaks the feeling of community could have allowed for an open door between old definitions and modern implementation, but this is where her narrative crumbles. Instead of finding ways to bridge between the old and new, she deftly paints essay after essay with the theme of us vs. them. Reinforcing the stereotypes of the wizened country dweller and unaware, uncaring urbanite does little to help people feel like they should take the time to understand the radical changes that are happening across the country in the fabric of rural america.
Hasselstrom's writing is far better than this rating, a 4 1/2 would be accurate, but the overarching ideas greatly decrease the readability of the book.
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