Film and Its Techniques

In a manner completely acceptable to the professional film maker, yet thoroughly understandable and of great value to the amateur cinematographer, Mr. Spottiswoode presents the essential, unwritten lore of documentary film making. The book deals first with the ideas for a documentary film, and shows how they are embodied in a script. It explains how the production unit is assembled, and goes on to describe the mechanism of the camera, the primary instrument of film making, and continues with editing, optical printing, the film library, negative cutting and more.