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SELECTED BOOK LIST
i . Film History
A Million and One Nights. Terry Ramsay e. Simon and Schuster, 1926. A discursive but fascinating history of silent cinema written from the American point of view.
The Film Till Now. Paul Rotha. Cape, 1 930. Revised edition with Richard Griffith, Vision Press, 1949. The revised edition retains Rotha's original history of the silent cinema as it was written in 1930, and adds Griffith's cogent and exciting survey of the achievement of the American and European sound film up to 1948. The Appendices include lists of the production units of a large number of outstanding films and a carefully compiled glossary of film terms.
Celluloid. Paul Rotha. Longmans, Green and Co, 1931. A sequel to the first edition of the above, enter ing upon the sound film.
Documentary Film. Paul Rotha. Faber and Faber, 1936. Revised 1939. Reissued with additional contributions by Sinclair Road and Richard Griffith, 1952. The reissue was for the purpose of bringing this standard work of film history up to date. The 1952 edition surveys the great enlargement of world documentary brought about by war-time and post-war production.
Movie Parade. Compiled by Paul Rotha. Studio, 1936. Revised edition by Paul Rotha and Roger Manvell, 1950. A fine collection of stills giving a pictorial history of world cinema in its various branches.
History of the Film. Bardeche and Brasillach. Translated and edited by Iris Barry. Allen and Unwin, 1938. Revised editions in French, Andre Martd, Paris, 1949 and 1953-4. An interesting and important history from the French point of view.
Histoire de VArt cinematographique. Carl Vincent. Editions du Trident, Bruxelles, 1939. A detailed history of the film from the beginnings to about 1937. Recommended.
The Rise of the American Film. Lewis Jacobs. Harcourt Brace and Co, New York, 1939. This is undoubtedly one of the few very good books on the film, but naturally limited to the achievement of America, with occasional references only to European cinema. It is both lively and authoritative. It takes the various
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