03664cam a22004091 4500 1692402 BJBSDDR 20250722093814.0 a|||||r|||| 00| 0 ta 730213s1951 caua rb 000 0 eng 51010739 1692402 DLC DLC DLC eng eng PN 1995.9 S765f 1951 791.4 Spottiswoode, Raymond, 1913-1970 43519 Film and its techniques / Raymond Spottiswoode ; Illustrations by Jean-Paul Ladouceur. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1951. xvi, 516 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier 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 Documentary films History and criticism. Cine documental Historia y crítica 19747 Cinematography. Cinematografía 173 Ladouceur, Jean-Paul, 1921-1992 43551 illustrator 7 cbc orignew u ocip 19 y-gencatlg lcc BK LLH 124321 124321 0 0 lcc 0 0 HU BJB BJB HU 2025-07-18 0 PN 1995.9 S765f 1951 00000193484 2025-07-18 22:16:00 1 2025-07-18 BK