Moving Pictures
- Subtitle
- How They Are Made and Worked
Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot
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1. Front matter2. PREFACE3. CHAPTER I WHAT IS ANIMATED PHOTOGRAPHY?4. CHAPTER II THE FIRST ATTEMPTS TO PRODUCE MOVING PICTURES5. CHAPTER III THE SEARCH FOR THE CELLULOID FILM6. CHAPTER IV THE KINETOSCOPE: THE ANIMATOGRAPH: THE CINEMATOGRAPH7. CHAPTER V HOW THE CELLULOID FILM IS MADE8. CHAPTER VI THE STORY OF THE PERFORATION GAUGE9. CHAPTER VII THE MOVING PICTURE CAMERA, ITS CONSTRUCTION, AND OPERATION10. CHAPTER VIII DEVELOPING AND PRINTING THE PICTURES11. CHAPTER IX HOW THE PICTURES ARE SHOWN UPON THE SCREEN.12. CHAPTER X THE STUDIO FOR STAGING MOVING PICTURE PLAYS13. CHAPTER XI THE CINEMATOGRAPH AS A RECORDER OF TOPICAL EVENTS: SCENIC FILMS.14. CHAPTER XII THE CINEMATOGRAPH THEATRE AND ITS EQUIPMENT15. CHAPTER XIII HOW A CINEMATOGRAPH PLAY IS PRODUCED16. CHAPTER XIV MOVING PICTURES OF MICROBES17. CHAPTER XV SOME ELABORATE PICTURE PLAYS AND HOW THEY WERE STAGED18. CHAPTER XVI PICTURES THAT MOVE, TALK, AND SING19. CHAPTER XVII POPULAR SCIENCE AS REVEALED BY THE CINEMATOGRAPH20. CHAPTER XVIII TRICK PICTURES AND HOW THEY ARE PRODUCED I.—The first attempts at cinematograph magic and the artifices adopted21. 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.22. 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.23. 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.”24. CHAPTER XXII TRICK PICTURES AND HOW THEY ARE PRODUCED V.—“Princess Nicotine” and her remarkable caprices25. CHAPTER XXIII TRICK PICTURES AND HOW THEY ARE PRODUCED VI.—Some Unusual and Novel Effects26. CHAPTER XXIV ELECTRIC SPARK CINEMATOGRAPHY27. CHAPTER XXV THE “ANIMATED” NEWSPAPER28. CHAPTER XXVI ANIMATION IN NATURAL COLOURS29. CHAPTER XXVII MOVING PICTURES IN THE HOME30. CHAPTER XXVIII MOTION-PHOTOGRAPHY AS AN EDUCATIONAL FORCE31. CHAPTER XXIX RECENT DEVELOPMENTS: THE GROWTH AND POPULARITY OF THE CINEMATOGRAPH: SOME FACTS AND FIGURES: CONCLUSION32. INDEX