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Foreword

Preface by Douglas Trumbull

Part I. THE GLASS CINEMA: The Cinema of Real Motion

1. Huygens and the Magic Lantern
2. The Magic Lanternists
3. Lantern Light and Glass

Part II. THE GLASS CINEMA: Apparent Motion, Discovered and Applied

1. Plateau Invents the Phenakistoscope
2. A Persistent Myth
3. The Zoëtrope and the Praxinoscope
4. Daguerre’s Photography
5. Fox Talbot’s Photography
6. Protocinematographers: Duboscq to Le Prince
7. Muybridge and Anschütz
8. Chronophotographers: Janssen, Marey, and Demenÿ

Part III. THE CELLULOID CINEMA: The 35mm Medium

1. Edison, Dickson, and the Kineto Project
2. The Kinetograph
3. The Kinetoscope: Projection’s Inspiration
4. Dickson Moves On: Lambda, Mutoscope, and Bitzer
5. Jenkins and Armat: American Projection
6. The Lumières and the Europeans
7. Edison and the Trust
8. Porter the Filmmaker
9. Porter and the Simplex
10. Camera Design before WWII
11. Camera Design after WWII
12. Ciné Lenses: Part I
13. Ciné Lenses: Part II

Part IV. THE CELLULOID CINEMA: Sound

1. Silent Sound
2. Synchronizing the Phonograph
3. Electronics for Talking Shadows
4. The Origins of Sound-on-Film
5. One Man Bands: Lauste and Tykociner
6. Tri-Ergon
7. De Forest and Case
8. Phonofilm
9. William Fox Hears the Future
10. Vitaphone
11. Movietone
12. RCA vs. ERPI
13. William Fox vs. the Industry
14. Optical Sound Evolution
15. Multichannel, Magnetic, and Digital Sound

Part V. THE CELLULOID CINEMA: Color

1. Applied Color
2. Color Elucidated
3. Color Photography before the Movies
4. Urban and the Origins of Kinemacolor
5. The Rise and Fall of Kinemacolor
6. Additive Color after Kinemacolor
7. Subtractive Technologies
8. Kelly’s Color Microcosm
9. TruColor and Cinecolor
10. Two-Color Technicolor
11. Three-Color Technicolor
12. Agfa and Ansco Color
13. Eastman Color

Part VI. THE CELLULOID CINEMA: Small Formats

1. Early Small Formats
2. 16mm
3. Kodachrome
4. Double 8mm and Super 8

Part VII. THE CELLULOID CINEMA: The Big Wide Screen

1. The Shape of Screens to Come
2. Grandeur et al
3. Expanded Screen: The Interregnum Ends
4. This is Cinerama
5. Cinerama after Waller
6. CinemaScope
7. ‘Scope Variations
8. Wide Screen and VistaVision
9. Todd-AO
10. 65/70mm and Technirama
11. IMAX and PLF Exhibition

Part VIII. THE CELLULOID CINEMA: The Stereoscopic Cinema

1. Early 3-D
2. Polarization Image Selection
3. 3-D in the Last Half of the 20th Century

Part IX. TELEVISION AND THE DIGITAL CINEMA: Television

1. Vision at a Distance
2. Jenkins and Baird
3. Farnsworth
4. Zworykin
5. Broadcasting Begins
6. Color Wars: CBS vs. RCA
7. High Definition Television
8. Film to Video and the VTR

Part X. TELEVISION AND THE DIGITAL CINEMA: Electronic Cinema

1. Early Adopters: Electronic Cinematography and CGI
2. Digital Technology
3. The Hybridization of Post-production
4. Electro-Mechanical to Digital Projection
5. Digital Projection and 3-D Converge

Afterword and Acknowledgements

Bibliographies

Books

Articles

Internet

Sites

Patents

Index

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