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Pantheon [Published Date: 2015]. Hardcover, 416 pp. First edition, (with full number line). Very good in very good dust jacket. Pale gray Paper over Boards with silver lettering on spine. Light bumping and scuffing to edges of covers. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has light bumping to edges and light overall scuffing. NOT price clipped. Now in an archival-quality (removable) Brodart Cover. Black and white illustrations. [From front jacket flap] He was the consummate designer of film architecture on a grand scale, influenced by German expressionism and the work of the great European directors. He was known for his visual flair and timeless innovation, a man who meticulously preplanned the color and design of each film through a series of continuity sketches that made clear camera angles, lighting, and the actors' positions for each scene, translating dramatic conventions of the stage to the new capabilities of film. Here is the long-awaited book on William Cameron Menzies, Hollywood's first and greatest production designer, a job title David O. Selznick invented for Menzies' extraordinary, all-encompassing, Academy Award-winning work on Gone With the Wind (which he effectively co-directed). . .