The Movies ... and the People Who Make Them (1940)

"The MOVIES • • • • and the people who make them" (CRAFTSMANSHIP— Continued) NELSON, CLIFFORD A.: Natural Color F.lm (New York, 1937) 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 ed. 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 (New York, 1928) PEACOCKE, LESLIE T.: Hints on Photoplay Writing (Chicago, 1916) P1TCHFORD, R. and COOMBS, F.: The Projectionist’s Handbook (London, 1933) 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) RAMS AYE. 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) ROLLEFSON, HERHARD K., and BURTON. MILTON: Photochemistry and the Mecha nism of Chemical Reactions (New York, 1939) 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 Making Made Easy (Nutley, 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) WESTON, 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 Social 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 stage' craft. (New York, 1929) COWAN, LESTER (ed): Recording Sound for Motion Pictures (New York, 1931) Symposium by the Academy of Motion Pic' ture Arts and Sciences on the coming of sound, new equipment, rise of the profession, etc. COX, WARREN W. (ed): The Theatre and Motion Pictures (New York, 1929) Britannica Booklet No. 7, containing 47 au' thoritative articles from the Encyclopedia. DEPUE, O. B., and JENKINS, C. F.: Handbook for Motion Pictures and Stereopticon Operators (Washington, D. C., 1908) DICKSON, WILLIAM KENNEDY LAURIE: History of the Kinematograph, Kinetoscope and Kinetophonograph (New York, 1895) : History of the Photograpic 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 con* nected with the Lathams and their pantop* ticon. DOLBEAR, A. E.: The Art of Projecting (Boston and New York, 1877) DOYLE, GEORGE RALPH: Twenty Five Years of Films (London, 1936) Federal Communications Commission. Report ol 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 finan' cial developments following the advent of sound. GRAU, ROBERT: The Theatre of Science (New York, 1914) GREEN, FITSHUGH: The Film Finds Its Tongue (New York, 1929) HAMPTON, BENJAMIN B.: A History of the Movies (New York, 1931) HAYS, WILL 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.: Animated Photography (London, 1897; 2nd ed. 1900) HEPWORTH, THOMAS CRADOCK: The Book of the Lantern (London, 1888) HOPKINS, ALBERT A.. Magic, Stage Illusions . . . Trick Photography (New York, 1898) HOPWOOD, H. V.: Living Pictures; their His' tory, 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. HORTSMANN, H. C.: Motion Picture Operation, Stage Electrics and Illusions (Chicago, 1914) JACOBS, LEWIS: The Rise of the American Film (New York, 1939) 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) KENNEDY, JOSEPH PATRICK, ed.: The Story of the Films (Chicago, 1927) 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) Letter to The Scientific American Supplement (January 28, 1883) Describes the evening at the home of M. Messonier in Paris at which Muybridge exhibited his pictures mounted on a zoopraxo' scope to give the illusion of movement when turned. LUBSCHEAZ, BEN JUHUDAH: The Story ol the Motion Picture, 65 B. C. to 1920 A. D. (New York, 1920) LUTZ, EDWIN G.: Animated Cartoons (New York, 1926) MAREY, E. J.: Movement, translated by Eric Pritchard (New York, 1895) MILLER, D. C.: Anecdotal History of the Science of Sounds (New York, 1935) MILLER, RENE FULOP: The Motion Picture in America (New York, 1938) Included in “The American Theatre" by John Anderson. MURRELL, WILLIAM: A History of American Graphic Humor, 1865' 1938 (New York, 1938) MUYBRIDGE, EDWEARD: Animals in Motion (Philadelphia, 1901) Muybridge was the photographer hired by Leland Stanford to take the historic snapshots of a galloping horse which started the story of the photographic motion picture. : Attitudes of animals in motion; a series of photographs . . . executed at Palo Alto, California in 1878 and 1879. This album is preserved in the Museum at Stanford University. : Descriptive Zoopraxography (Philadelphia, 1893) : Animal Locomotion. The Muybridge work at the University of Pennsylvania, the method and the result. Printed for the University by J. P. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, 1888. Many text fig' ures and diagrams. The Muybridge work at the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, 1888) Comprising three essays: “The Mechanism of Instantaneous Photography” by William Dennis Marks; “Materials for a Memoir on Animal Locomotion” by Harrison Allen; “A Study of Some Normal and Abnormal Move* ments Photographed by Muybridge” by Francis X. Dercum. NORTON, C. GOODWIN: The Lantern and How to Use It (London, 1901) PRINGLE, ANDREW: The Optical Lantern for Instruction and Amusement (London, 1899) RAMSAYE, TERRY (ed): International Motion Picture Almanac, 1938' 1939 (New York, 1938) Published annually with full information on all aspects of the industry. : A Million and One Nights. 2 volumes. (New York, 1926) First and foremost history of the movies, the source book for most later work and still the standard authority to the date of publication. RICHARDSON, F. H.: Article read before the Society of Motion Picture Engineers (Pub' lished in Moving Picture World, September 26 and October 3, 1925) Contains statements by Thomas A. Edison and George Eastman concerning their shares in per' fecting motion picture machinery and film. ROGET, PATER MARK: Persistence of Vision with Regard to Moving Objects (London, 1825) Paper read before the Royal Society of Great Britain in 1924 and published the following year. ROTH A, PAUL: The Documentary Film (London, 1936) : The Film Till Now (New York, 1930, reprinted 1931) : Movie Parade (New York, 1936) The story of the films in pictures. 4