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

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Spottiswoode, Raymond, 1913-1970.

Contributor:

• Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Documentary films--History and criticism.
• Documentary films.
• Documentary films--Technique--History and criticism.
• Cinematography--History and criticism.
• Cinematography--Technique--History and criticism.
• Cinematography--Technique.
• Cinematography.
• Technique.

Penn Provenance:

• Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered pages, xvi, 516 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley ; Los Angeles : University of California Press, [©1951]

Contents:

• Mapping the route
• How a film starts
• The camera
• The cutting room
• The library: indexing time and space
• Synthesizing space and time
• The irreplaceable negative
• The laboratory: studio grand central
• Production techniques: color and 16 mm
• Sound: getting it onto film
• Sound: getting it onto the screen
• Some studio techniques
• Journey's end
• Things to come.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 485-501) and indexes.

Local Notes:

• Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 1 is ninth printing, 1965.
• Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 1 has ms. note "12/14/65 Daly ...." on front flyleaf.
• Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 2 has dustjacket retained.
• Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 2 is "Tenth Printing, 1966".

OCLC:

330262