Amateur talking pictures and recording (1933)

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A POPULAR BOOK AMATEUR CINEMATOGRAPHY By Capt. Owen Wheeler F.R.P.S. This interesting handbook and guide to home cinematography shows you what apparatus to buy for taking the pictures. developing, etc., and projecting on the screen. CONTENTS PART I Fundamentals of Cinematography — Persistence of Vision — Analysis and Synthesis of Motion — Early Developments — Latterday Progress — Amateur as Distinct from, and Applied to. Prorial Work — Standards and Sub-standards — "Flam" and ■flam" — Kodak Film — Pathe Film. PART II Taking Mechanism — Development — The Cine-Kodaks — Cameras Taking 16 mm. Film — The Baby Cine — Standard Film Cam* PART III Projection — Kodascopes — The Filmo — The Ruby — The Oxford Super-K — The Baby Cine-projector — The Eyemo — Film S arios — Amateur Restrictions— Clubs — The Plot — The Script — Scenery — Dresses — Film Libraries— Bought Films — Purchase r. Hiring — Sidelines and Pointers — Dissolves — Reversing — Halfspeed — Slow Motion Pictures — Toning and Tinting — Editing. In demy 8vo, cloth gilt, 160 pp., illustrated, 6s. net Six Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd., Parker Street, Kingsway, London, W.C.2