Film and Its Techniques / Raymond Spottiswoode.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spottiswoode, Raymond, Author.

Contributor:

Ladoucer, Jean-Paul

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (536 p.)

Edition:

7th printing, Reprint 2020

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Foreword

Contents

Introduction

I Mapping the Route

II How a Film Starts

III The Camera

IV The Cutting Room

V The Library: Indexing Time and Space

VI Synthesizing Space and Time

VII The Irreplaceable Negative

VIII The Laboratory: Studio Grand Central

IX Production Techniques: Color and 16 mm

X Sound: Getting It onto Film

XI Sound: Getting It onto the Screen

XII Some Studio Techniques

XIII Journey's End

XIV Things to Come

Epilogue

Glossary

Booklist

Index of Films

General Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780520311695

0520311698

OCLC:

1229161062