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Moving Pictures——How They Are Made and Worked

Moving Pictures——How They Are Made and Worked

by Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot

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Author
Talbot, Frederick Arthur Ambrose, 1880-1924
Title
Moving Pictures: How They Are Made and Worked
Original Publication
United States: J. B. Lippincott,1914.
Credits
deaurider, Charlie Howard, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Language
English
LoC Class
PN: Language and Literatures: Literature: General, Criticism, Collections
Subject
Motion pictures
Category
Text
Project Gutenberg
eBook-No. 67972
Release Date
May 2, 2022
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.MOVING PICTURES HOW THEY ARE MADE AND WORKED
  2. 2.Untitled
  3. 3.PREFACE
  4. 4.CONTENTS
  5. 5.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  6. 6.CHAPTER I WHAT IS ANIMATED PHOTOGRAPHY?
  7. 7.CHAPTER II THE FIRST ATTEMPTS TO PRODUCE MOVING PICTURES
  8. 8.CHAPTER III THE SEARCH FOR THE CELLULOID FILM
  9. 9.CHAPTER IV THE KINETOSCOPE: THE ANIMATOGRAPH: THE CINEMATOGRAPH — The Kinetoscope — The Animatograph — The Cinematograph.
  10. 10.CHAPTER V HOW THE CELLULOID FILM IS MADE
  11. 11.CHAPTER VI THE STORY OF THE PERFORATION GAUGE
  12. 12.CHAPTER VII THE MOVING PICTURE CAMERA, ITS CONSTRUCTION, AND OPERATION
  13. 13.CHAPTER VIII DEVELOPING AND PRINTING THE PICTURES
  14. 14.CHAPTER IX HOW THE PICTURES ARE SHOWN UPON THE SCREEN.
  15. 15.CHAPTER X THE STUDIO FOR STAGING MOVING PICTURE PLAYS
  16. 16.CHAPTER XI THE CINEMATOGRAPH AS A RECORDER OF TOPICAL EVENTS: SCENIC FILMS.
  17. 17.CHAPTER XII THE CINEMATOGRAPH THEATRE AND ITS EQUIPMENT
  18. 18.CHAPTER XIII HOW A CINEMATOGRAPH PLAY IS PRODUCED
  19. 19.CHAPTER XIV MOVING PICTURES OF MICROBES
  20. 20.CHAPTER XV SOME ELABORATE PICTURE PLAYS AND HOW THEY WERE STAGED
  21. 21.CHAPTER XVI PICTURES THAT MOVE, TALK, AND SING
  22. 22.CHAPTER XVII POPULAR SCIENCE AS REVEALED BY THE CINEMATOGRAPH
  23. 23.CHAPTER XVIII TRICK PICTURES AND HOW THEY ARE PRODUCED I.—The first attempts at cinematograph magic and the artifices adopted
  24. 24.CHAPTER XIX TRICK PICTURES AND HOW THEY ARE PRODUCED II.—Dancing Furniture: Strings, Cords and Wires: “The Magnetic Gentleman”: The “Stop and Substitution”: “The Automobile Accident”: Reversal of Action.
  25. 25.CHAPTER XX TRICK PICTURES AND HOW THEY ARE PRODUCED III.—Manipulation of the film: Apparitions and gradual disappearances by opening and closing the diaphragm of the lens slowly: “The Siren”: Submarine effects.
  26. 26.CHAPTER XXI TRICK PICTURES AND HOW THEY ARE PRODUCED IV.—Lilliputian figures: “The Little Milliner’s Dream”: the “one turn one picture” movement: how some extraordinary incidents are produced: “The Ski Runner.”
  27. 27.CHAPTER XXII TRICK PICTURES AND HOW THEY ARE PRODUCED V.—“Princess Nicotine” and her remarkable caprices
  28. 28.CHAPTER XXIII TRICK PICTURES AND HOW THEY ARE PRODUCED VI.—Some Unusual and Novel Effects
  29. 29.CHAPTER XXIV ELECTRIC SPARK CINEMATOGRAPHY
  30. 30.CHAPTER XXV THE “ANIMATED” NEWSPAPER
  31. 31.CHAPTER XXVI ANIMATION IN NATURAL COLOURS
  32. 32.CHAPTER XXVII MOVING PICTURES IN THE HOME
  33. 33.CHAPTER XXVIII MOTION-PHOTOGRAPHY AS AN EDUCATIONAL FORCE
  34. 34.CHAPTER XXIX RECENT DEVELOPMENTS: THE GROWTH AND POPULARITY OF THE CINEMATOGRAPH: SOME FACTS AND FIGURES: CONCLUSION
  35. 35.INDEX
  36. 36.Transcriber’s Notes

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