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The author gratefully acknowledges his indebtedness to Simon and Schuster for excerpts from A Million and One Nights, A History of the Motion Picture by Terry Ramsaye ; to Douglas Shearer and Kenneth Lambert, sound engineers, for technical data on sound recording; to Dr. Cline Koon, United States Department of Education, for data on the educational film and for his original suggestion that this book be written ; to Walter Evans of Bell and Howell for data on home movies ; to Mrs. Kate Corbaley for data on the screen story; to Fred Quimby for data on the short subject.
Acknowledgments are also made to Prof. William Strunk, Jr., Cornell University; to Prof. William Lewin, Chairman, Motion Picture Committee of the Department of Secondary Education, National Education Association; to Olindo Ceccarini for information on color photography; to Gordon Mitchell, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; to John M. Nickolaus and Anthony G. Wise, laboratory experts; to Nathalie Bucknall and Elizabeth McGaffey, research work; to John Arnold, President, American Society of Cinematographers; to Lorraine Noble, formerly of the American Council of Education; to Lawrence Keethe, wardrobe expert; to Mrs. Alice Ames Winter and Thomas Pettey, Association of Motion Picture Producers; to Robert Vogel, international film expert; to Howard Strickling; to Jack Dawn for aid on make-up; to Will H. Hays and to Hon. Carl E. MUliken, Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America; to Howard Dietz; to Edward Mannix; to Mrs. Inez G. Richardson, Curator of Ray Lyman Wilbur Collection on Social Problems, Stanford University; to Augustus Bridle, Toronto, Canada; to Mrs. Ina Roberts, Cleveland Public Library; to Cecil B. DeMille; to Louis B. Mayer; to Mrs. Francis Flagg, West Newton, Mass.; to the Journal of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers; and to many others.
Credit is also given the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios for specially photographed illustrations.
All of these competent persons and associations have contributed largely to the technical authenticity of this book and to them I express my deep gratitude.
Especial acknowledgment is made to Miss Mildred English, Director of the Peabody Practice School, Georgia State College for Women, Milledgeville, Georgia, for valuable suggestions concerning the use of Talking Pictures in schools and for her aid in promoting these suggestions.
Acknowledgment is also made to Dr. B. H. Van Oot, Supervisor of Trade and Industrial Education in Virginia, for his careful reading of the manuscript and his helpful criticisms.
Copyright, 1937 JOHNSON PUBLISHING COMPANY