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Phillip W. Stewart was born and raised in southern California. He graduated from San Diego State University with a Bachelor's degree in Radio, Television and Film. Phil also has a Master's degree in Business Management. He was a member of the U.S. Air Force for 21 years spending most of his military service involved in video production and multimedia management.  He's been an aviation motion picture film researcher and consultant in Alabama, owned a video production company in California, worked as a TV producer-director in Arizona, managed a cable channel in Michigan, and currently manages a government multimedia facility in Florida.  

In his spare time, Phil volunteers as a motion picture researcher for the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force.  He is the author of three historic film related books, BATTLEFILM: U.S. Army Signal Corps Motion Pictures of the Great War, WAR WINGS: Films of the First Air War, and PROJECTED HISTORY: A Catalog of the U.S. National Stories Released by Universal Newsreel, Volume One, 1929-1930. Phil is also putting the final touches on his latest work, AMERICA'S FILM VAULT: A Reference Guide to the Motion Pictures Held Within the U.S. National Archives. He is a member of the American Aviation Historical Society, the League of World War I Aviation Historians, and the Military Writers Society of America, among others.  Along with his wife and two cats, he lives semi-quietly on the Emerald Coast of Florida.

Projected History: A Catalog of the National Stories Produced by Universal Newsreel, Volume One, 1929-1930

Phillip W. Stewart
pms press (2008)
ISBN 9780979324383
Reviewed by Richard R. Blake for Reader Views (09/08)


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Synopsis: "Projected History: A Catalog of the National Stories Produced by Universal Newsreel" and the subsequent volumes of this series focus on the documented history of the U.S. and rest of the world as seen through the lens of the Universal Newsreel movie camera. The information contained in this series is based on Universal's textual records and microfilm documentation, as well as a review of some of the stories themselves.

Volume One: 1929-1930, contains all the stories nationally released for the first two years of the Universal Newspaper Newsreel, as it was known back then. Included are short descriptions that were written at the time for the newsreel's synopsis sheets. This information has been reformatted and lightly edited for readability, but the vintage literary style and verbiage has not been altered to satisfy today's political correctness or sensitivities. This volume also includes a comprehensive title and subject index. 
 
One of the benefits of this book is that all of the Universal Newsreel stories released nationally in the U.S., and known to exist today within the NARA film vault, are noted. This is the first time that a Universal Newsreel story title, description, and availability have beenbrought together into a single published reference work. 
 
The audience for this book are the students of: film, U.S. and world history, genealogy, as well as people involved in film/TV/video/multimedia production services. A diverse group.