"Motion picture industry United States History." . . "Motion picture industry." . . "Hal Roach Studios" . . "Hal Roach Studios." . "Motion picture producers and directors Biography." . . "Motion picture producers and directors." . . "Comedians United States Biography." . . "Comedians." . . "United States." . . . . . "History" . . "100 years of Brodies with Hal Roach : the jaunty journeys of a Hollywood motion picture and television pioneer" . "Biography" . . . . "\"This book contains personal anecdotes of the author's friendship with this pioneer producer, and presents a complete and detailed overview of Hal Roach's career, from the adventurous youth's arrival in Hollywood in 1912 during the earliest days of movie making, to the creation of a studio dedicated to the production of world-wide popular film comedies, to his pioneering work at the birth of the talkies and his virtual launching of the television industry in Hollywood twenty years after that, and on through the 100th year of his exuberantly productive life\" --P. 4 of cover." . . . . . . . . . "One hundred years of Brodies with Hal Roach" . "BearManor Media" . .