Talking pictures : how they are made and how to appreciate them (1937)

Record Details:

Title:
Talking pictures : how they are made and how to appreciate them
Date:
1937
Publisher:
London : E. & F. N. Spon, Ltd.
Volume:
Talking pictures : how they are made and how to appreciate them
Leaf #:
000260
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
March 28, 2024
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EDITING THE FILM Very few persons who attend motion pictures have any conception of what happens to a film production following the completion of photography; or, in studio parlance, "after the cameras stop grinding." Almost every fairly regular theatregoer, who also reads the photoplay pages of his or her daily paper, can more or less correctly define the work of a cameraman, a director, or a star. But to all except a very few such cinematic terms as "laboratory," "cutting," "hypo," and "soup" have no more meaning than a sermon in the Greek language delivered to a tribe of Kaffirs in darkest Africa. For those who really want to understand and enjoy motion pictures this is not a healthy condition. The period required to produce "finished prints" — those used for actual theatrical exhibitions — is one third of the whole time needed to carry a story from words on a few hundred sheets of paper, to the pictured images which parade nightly across the metalized screens of thousands of motion picture theatres. The period of photography is only one sixth of the total. And yet because it is more glamorous and more spectacular, easily ten times as much is known about its processes than about those concerned with selection [216]