Anthony Slide
| Anthony Slide | |
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| Born |
7 November 1944 Birmingham, England |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | English |
| Genre | Film |
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Anthony Slide (born 7 November 1944 in Birmingham, England) is a writer who has produced more than seventy books and edited a further 150 on the history of popular entertainment. He wrote a "letter from Hollywood" for the British Film Review from 1979 to 1994, and he wrote a monthly book review column for Classic Images from 1989 to 2001. He is a member of the editorial board of the American Film Institute Catalog.
Born in Birmingham, England, on 7 November 1944, Slide began his professional involvement with the cultural and historical field of films in the mid-1960s, serving as honorary secretary of the Society for Film History Research and co-founding and serving as the first editor of the newsletter of the still-active Cinema Theatre Association. In 1968, he became assistant editor of International Film Guide and editorial assistant on the film publications of Tantivy Press. That same year, he co-founded The Silent Picture, a quarterly devoted to the art and history of the silent film, which he edited until its demise in 1974. In 1970, in conjunction with the London Film Festival, Slide organized Britain's, and the world's, first silent film festival, an eighteen-day event at the National Film Theatre.
In 1971, Slide was named a Louis B. Mayer Research Associate with the American Film Institute's Center for Advanced Film Studies in Beverly Hills. The following year, he went to Washington, D.C. to set up the American Film Institute Catalog: Feature Films, 1911–1920, and subsequently became the AFI's associate film archivist. In 1975, he moved to Los Angeles, becoming resident film historian of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, responsible for most of its educational and cultural activities. He left the Academy in 1986 and co-owned Producers Library Service, one of the two oldest and largest independent stock footage libraries in the United States from 1986–1990. He is now an independent film scholar, archivist and consultant.
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