Film and its techniques / Raymond Spottiswoode ; Illustrations by Jean-Paul Ladouceur.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: Berkeley, University of California Press, 1951.Description: xvi, 516 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.4
LOC classification:
  • PN 1995.9 S765f 1951
Contents:
Introduction … 1 How a Film Starts … 14 Film and Actuality … 36 How the Camera Works … 46 The Zoom Lens … 62 The Cutting Room … 90 Film on Fire … 103 Synthesizing Space and Time … 120 Indexing Time and Space … 114 (note: table shows reordering variations) Shooting at Secondhand … 146 Studio Grand Central … 160 Color and 16 mm … 203 Packing Up the Color … 211 Getting It onto Film … 275 The Modulator … 283 Recording … 309 Basic Problems of Recording … 319 Putting the Sounds Together … 325 The Final Sound Track … 331 Journeys End … 358 Epilogue … 388 Booklist … 485 Index of Films … 503
Summary: In a manner completely acceptable to the professional film maker, yet thoroughly understandable and of great value to the amateur cinematographer, Spottiswoode presents the essential, unwritten lore of documentary film making. The book deals first with the ideas for a documentary film, and shows how they are embodied ina script. It explains how the production unit is assembled, and goes on to describe the mechanism of the camera, the primary instrument of film making. The chapters which follow discuss the important creative process of editing, optical printing, the film library, and negative cutting. A special section deals with the physics of sound, the technical methods of recording it, and the creative uses to which sound can be put in film. A long chapter describes current color processes and 16-mm. techniques. Successive chapters take the reader through all the steps of the production from script to screen and give him clues to what practices he should adopt and what he should avoid. A number of simplified procedures in animation are described here for the first time. The book ends with an annotated bibliography of technical works on film, and an extensive, 1000-word glossary of film terms defined with the needs of the amateur in mind. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1951
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Bibliography: pages 485-501.

Introduction … 1
How a Film Starts … 14
Film and Actuality … 36
How the Camera Works … 46
The Zoom Lens … 62
The Cutting Room … 90
Film on Fire … 103
Synthesizing Space and Time … 120
Indexing Time and Space … 114 (note: table shows reordering variations)
Shooting at Secondhand … 146
Studio Grand Central … 160
Color and 16 mm … 203
Packing Up the Color … 211
Getting It onto Film … 275
The Modulator … 283
Recording … 309
Basic Problems of Recording … 319
Putting the Sounds Together … 325
The Final Sound Track … 331
Journeys End … 358
Epilogue … 388
Booklist … 485
Index of Films … 503

In a manner completely acceptable to the professional film maker, yet thoroughly understandable and of great value to the amateur cinematographer, Spottiswoode presents the essential, unwritten lore of documentary film making. The book deals first with the ideas for a documentary film, and shows how they are embodied ina script. It explains how the production unit is assembled, and goes on to describe the mechanism of the camera, the primary instrument of film making. The chapters which follow discuss the important creative process of editing, optical printing, the film library, and negative cutting. A special section deals with the physics of sound, the technical methods of recording it, and the creative uses to which sound can be put in film. A long chapter describes current color processes and 16-mm. techniques. Successive chapters take the reader through all the steps of the production from script to screen and give him clues to what practices he should adopt and what he should avoid. A number of simplified procedures in animation are described here for the first time. The book ends with an annotated bibliography of technical works on film, and an extensive, 1000-word glossary of film terms defined with the needs of the amateur in mind. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1951

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