The Movies ... and the People Who Make Them (1939)

"Th« MOVIES and the people who make them " (CRAFTSMANSHIP— Continued) EMERSON, JOHN and LOOS, ANITA: Breaking Into the Movies (New York, 1921) : How to Write Photoplays (Philadelphia, 1920) : Moving-picture Plays (New York, 1920) Contains the complete scenario for “The Love Expert.” ESENWEIN, J. BERG and LEEDS, ARTHUR: Writing the Photoplay (Springfield, Mass., 1913) FARQUHARSON, J.: Picture Plays and How to Write Them (London, 1916) FAWCETT, L’ESTRANGE: Writing for the Films (London, 1932) FLOHERTY, JOHN J.: Moviemakers (New York, 1935) FRANKLIN, HAROLD B.: Sound Motion Pic tures, from the Laboratory to their Presentation (Garden City, 1929) Fundamentals of Sound Recording and Reproduction. (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science, Hollywood, 1930) GAGE, SIMON HENRY and GAGE, HENRY PHELPS: Optic Projection (Ithaca, N. Y.. 1914) Includes an excellent bibliography. GALE, ARTHUR L.: How to Write a Movie (New York, 1936) GLYN, ELINOR: Elinor Glyn*s System of Writing (New York, 1922) GORDON, WILLIAM L.: How to Write Moving Picture Plays (Cincinnati, 1913, 2nd ed. 1915) GREGORY, C. L.: Motion Picture Photography (New York. 1920, 2nd ed. 1927) HARRISON, L. R.: Screencraft (New York, 1916) HOAGLAND, H. C.: How to Write a Photoplay (New York, 1912) HORSTMANN. HENRY C. and TOUSLEY. VICTOR H.: Motion Picture Operation (London, 1920) How Writers Write (New York, 1937) Process of turning a story into a script. HULFISH, DAVID S.: Cyclopedia of Motion Picture Work (Chicago, 1911, enlarged ed. 1915) The Motion Picture, its making and its theater (Chicago, 1909) : Motion Picture Work .(Chicago, 1913) JACKSON, ARRAR: Writing for the Screen (London, 1929) JACOBS, LEWIS: Film Writing Forms (New York. 1934) JENNINGS. TALBOT Romeo and Juliet: Shooting Script (Newark, N. J., 1937) JOHNSON, R. V.: Motion Picture Theater Electric Equipment and Projection (London, 1925) JONES, B. E. (ed): How to Make and Operate Moving Pictures (New York, 1916) JONES, CHARLES REED: Breaking Into the Movies (New York, 1928) JONES, G. F.: Sound Film Reproduction (London, 1931) KENDALL, G. P.: Film Titling (London, 1935) KIESLING, BARRETT: Talking Pictures: How They Are Made and How to Appreciate Them. (New York, 1938) KLUMPH. INEZ and HELEN: Screen Acting Its Requirements and Rewards (New York, 1922) LADD-FRANKLING, C.: Colour and Colour Theories (New York, 1929) LANE. TAMAR: The New Technique of Screen Writing (New York, 1936) LANG, EDITH: Musical Accompaniment of Moving Pictures (Boston, 1920) LEE, NORMAN: Money for Screen Stories (New York, 1938) LESCARBOURA. AUSTIN C.: Behind the Motion Picture Screen (New York, 1919, 2nd ed. 1921) : The Cinema Handbook (New York, 1921; London. 1922) LOMAS, H. M.: Picture Play Photography (London, 1914) LONDON. KURT: Film Music (London. 1937) LORE, GOLDEN: The Modern Photoplay and Its Construction (London. 1923) LUTZ, E. G.: The Motion Picture Camera Man (New York, 1927) LYTTON, GRACE: Scenario Writing Today (Boston, 1921) MacBEAN, L. G.: Kinematograph Studio Technique (New York, 1922) MALINS. GEOFFREY H.: How I Filmed the War (London, 1920) MARGRAVE, SETON: Successful Film Writing (London, 1937) Foreword by Alexander Korda and a brief piece by Rene Clair. Includes script of “The Ghost Goes West.” MARION, FRANCES: How to Write and Sell Film Stories (New York, 1938) MARSH, MAE: Screen Acting (New York, 1921) McKAY, H. C.: The Handbook of Motion Picture Photography (New York, 1927) McCRORY, JOHN R : How to Draw for the Movies (Kansas City, 1918) McKAY, HERBERT C.: Cine Titling and Editing (New York, 1932) : Motion Picture Photography (New York, 1924) MEES, C. E. KENNETH: Photography (New York, 1937) MIEHLING, RUDOLPH: Sound Projection (New York, 1929, 2nd ed. 1930) MILNE, P.: Motion Picture Directing (New York, 1922) Motion Picture Photography (Eastman Kodak Co., 1924) Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Motion Picture Sound Engineering (New York, 1938) NADELL, AARON: Projecting Sound Pictures (London, 1931) NAUMBERG, NANCY (ed). We Make the Movies (New York, 1937) Story of production from plan to completion. Articles by Jesse L. Lasky, Samuel Marx. Sidney Howard, John Cromwell, Clem Beauchamp, Hans Dreier, Robert Lee, Phil Friedman, Bette Davis, Paul Muni, John Arnold. Nathan Levinson. Anne Bauchens, Max Steiner, Lansing C. Holden, Walt Disney. NOBLE, LORRAINE (ed): Four-Star Scripts (New York, 1936) Shooting scripts of “Lady for a Day, “It Happened One Night,” “Little Women, “The Story of Louis Pasteur.” ORTMAN, MARGUERITE: Fiction and the Screen (Boston, 1935) PAGE, ARTHUR W. and others: Photoplay Plot Encyclopedia (Boston, 1932) PALMER. FREDERICK: Photoplay Plot Encyclopedia (Hollywood, 1922) : Technique of the Photoplay and Author's Photoplay Manuel (Los Angeles, 1920, 2nd cd. 1924) PARSONS, L. O.: How to Write for the Movies (Chicago, 1915) PATTERSON, FRANCES TAYLOR: Cinema Craftsmanship (New York, 1920, 2nd ed. 1921) — Motion Picture Continuities (New York, 1930) : Scenario and Screen (Newf York, 1928) PEACOCKE, LESLIE T : Hints on Photoplay Writing (Chicago, 1916) PITCHFORD, R. and COOMBS, F.: The Projectionist’s Handbook (London, 193 3 ) PITKIN. WALTER B. and MARSTON, WILLIAM: The Art of Sound Pictures (New York, 1930) Writing for the talkies. PRATT, AGNES E.: Practical Hints on Acting for the Cinema (New York. 1923) RADNOR, LEONA: The Photoplay Writer (New York, 1913) RAMSAYE. TERRY: Motion Picture Making and Exhibiting (Chicago, 1914) RAPEE, ERNO: Encyclopedia of Music for Pictures (New York, 1925) RATHBUN. JOHN B.: Motion Picture Making and Exhibiting (Chicago, 1914) ROSE, J. J.: American Cinematographers Handbook and Reference Guide (Hollywood, 1936) ROSS, E. N.: Scenario Writing (Philadelphia, 1912) SARGENT, EPES WINTHROP: The Technique of the Photoplay (New York, 1916) SCHEUING, F. M.: Motion Picture Acting New York, 1913) SHANNON, WILLIAM J.: Movie Mak ng Made Easy (Nutlcy, N. J., 1934) SLEVIN, JAMES: On Picture Play Writing (Cedar Grove. N. J., 1912) SMITH, RUSSELL E.: The Authors of the Photoplay (Philadelphia, 1915) Synchronized Reproduction of Sound and Scene, (Bell Laboratories, New York, 1928) Authoritative articles by experts covering all phases of the subject. TALBOT, FREDERICK A.: Moving Pictures — How They Are Made and Worked (Philadelphia, 1912, 2nd ed. 1914, rewritten, 1923) : Practical Cinematography and Its Applications (Philadelphia, 1913) THOMAS. ARTHUR W.: How to Write a Photoplay (Chicago, 1914) WATTS, STEPHEN (ed) : Behind the Screen (New York, 1938) Articles on aspects of production. WELSH, R. E.: A-B-C of Motion Pictures (New York, 1916) W7ESTON, H.: The Art of Photoplay Writing (London, 1916) WHITE, ERIC WALTER: Walking Shadows (London, 1931) Lotte Reiniger’s silhouette films and the art of animated cartoons. WINSTOM, E. R.: Movie’s Five Qualifications (Hollywood, 1925) WRIGHT, WILLIAM L.: The Motion Picture Story (Fergus Falls, Minn.. 1915) : Photoplay Writing (New York, 1922) YOUNG, W. H.: Scenario Secrets (Raleigh, N. C., 1925) HISTORICAL ALICOATE, JOHN W (ed): The 1938 Film Daily Year Book (New York, 1938) Published annually since 1918. An invaluable source of information, current and historical. ALLIGHAN, GARRY: The Romance of the Talkies (London, 1929) Annals of the American Academy of Political and Soc.al Sciences (Nov. 1926) Entire number devoted to the movie industry. BARDECHE. MAURICE and BRASILLACH, ROBERT: The History of Motion Pictures. (New York, 1938) Translated and edited by Iris Barry. BARRY, IRIS: Let’s Go to the Pictures (London, 1926) BLACK, ALEXANDER: Time and Chance (New York, 1937) Interesting material on pre-film picture plays. BOUGHLEY, D.: The Film Industry (London, 1921) CHENEY, SHELDON: The Theatre. Three thousand years of drama, acting and stagecraft. (New York, 1929) COW AN, LESTER (ed): Recording Sound for Motion Pictures (New York, 1931) Symposium by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on the coming of sound, new equipment, rise of the profession, etc. COX, WARREN W. (cd): The Theatre and Motion Pictures (New York, 1929) Britannica Booklet No. 7, containing 47 authoritative articles from the Encyclopedia. DICKSON, W. K. L.: History of the Photographic Experiments and Developments leading up to the Perfection of the Vitascope. (New York, 1896) Dickson was Edison's laboratory assistant in the development of the kinetoscope, later connected with the Lathams and their pantopticon. Federal Communications Commission. Report of ERPI’s (Electrical Research Products, Inc.) Motion Picture Activities. 3 volumes. (1937) Part of a complete survey of the Bell System. A thorough analysis of the technical and financial developments following the advent of sound. GREEN. FITSHUGH. The Film Finds Its Tongue (New York, 1929) HAMPTON. BENJAMIN B.: A History of the Movies (New York, 1931) HAYS. W ILL H : See and Hear (New York, 1929) : Annual Reports to the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, Inc. Published in pamphlet form each year. HEPWORTH, C. M.: An mated Photography (London, 1897; 2nd ed. 1900) HOPWOOD, H. V.: Living Pictures; their History, Photo-production and Practical Working. (London, 1899) Also contains classified lists of British patents and bibliography. New edition, revised by" R. B. Foster. London, 1915. JENKINS. C. F.: Animated Pictures (Washington, 1898) In association with Thomas Armat, Jenkins helped produce the Vitascope which began the commercial history of the motion picture on the screen. — : Picture Ribbons (Washington, 1897) KIRCHER. ATHANASIUS: Ars Magna Lucis et Umbra (1846) Story of his Magic Lantern with illustrations showing method of changing pictures. KNEPPER. MAX: Sodom and Gomorrah: the Story of Hollywood (Los Angeles, 193 5 ) KROWS, ARTHUR E.: The Talkies (New York, 1930) 4