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Audio Frequency Engineering

Price:  £12.00

Jones, E Haydn
A detailed survey of sound engineering, including archictectural acoustics and a chapter on sound in film recording, with many diagrams and formulae. Green cloth very slightly worn and marked, no inscriptions, clean, tight and sound, generally VG in chipped, worn, grubby, good DJ. p245
Chatto & Windus

Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible - a neoformalist analysis

Price:  £25.00

Thompson, Kristin
A detailed study of the film, with 254 small stills in colour and black and white. Ex-lib, with a stiff laminated illustrative library cover, marked and creased, marks and stamp to edge of page block, missing ffep, o/w clean, tight and sound, good. p321
Princeton University Press

Film Making

Price:  £10.00

Larsen, Egon
In the series 'The Mechanical Age Library' - history and 'how-to'. Illustrated by Kenneth M Sibley. Yellow cloth, a little bumped, some age-mottling to page edges, prize plate to ffep, generally VG, no DJ p142
Frederick Muller

Film Making in Schools

Price:  £5.00

Lowndes, Douglas
Reprint. A comprehensive programme for teaching film in universities, art schools or secondary schools - necessarily limited by the contemporary technology, but still an interesting resource. Boards just slightly marked, generally VG in chipped, creased, edge-worn DJ p128
B T Batsford

Filming for Amateurs

Price:  £8.00

Burnford, Paul
With a foreword by Paul Rotha Cover a little marked, pages yellowing, name stamp to ffep, generally VG in badly chipped DJ p107
Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons

Motion Pictures; the development of an art from silent films to the age of television

Price:  £5.50

Fulton, A R
Ex lib, in lib binding, but internally clean and sound p320
Univ of Oklahoma

Peter Hall Directs Antony and Cleopatra

Price:  £20.00

Lowen, Tirzah
VG in VG DJ, not price-clipped. p176
Methuen

Projecting Sound Pictures- a practical textbook for projectionists and managers

Price:  £40.00

Nadell, Aaron
A classic of early sound engineering, illustrated with many photographs and diagrams. Black cloth covers a little worn and marked, no inscriptions, pages yellowed, tight and sound, generally VG, no DJ. p265
McGraw-Hill

Special Effects in Film and Television

Price:  £12.00

Hamilton, Jake
A behind-the-scenes look at how special effects were achieved in such films as Star Wars, Superman, Independence Day, Jurassic Park and The Mask. VG, laminated illustrative boards, in good edge-worn but generally sound DJ, not price-clipped. p63
Dorling Kindersley










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