This book, designed for the film maker, critic, and serious filmgoer, explores elements of filmic expression from the creative and perceptual points of view. Chapters (1) trace the linguistic and mechanical development of film, (2) discuss the contributions of image and sound to film content, (3) suggest the contributions of editing and montage,…

A subject heading list for 16 millimeter motion pictures is proposed here that is designed to provide audiovisual librarians with a tool which will aid them in making subject indexes for their printed film catalogs and to establish an authority for professional catalogers who may be called upon to catalog 16 mm. motion pictures. In preparing the…

Examines Chaplin's movement from silent films to sound films and his reluctant use of the spoken word and inclination to link human speech to basically sterile functions. (JMF)

Makes a case for asking students to produce their own film version of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Explains how to manage student filming projects logistically; how to teach students about filming techniques through the study of modern movies; and how filming becomes a lesson in the interpretation of Shakespeare. (TB)

Summarizes events of an International Environmental Film Festival held in Boulder, Colorado. Includes reviews of new environmental films and videos presented and discussed by filmmakers, producers, and directors. Describes filmmakers roles in environmental activism and two outreach programs of the festival: Greenschools and Global Action Plan for…

Procedures are suggested for establishing film preview policies that do not infringe copyrights. (JH)

An examination of what film libraries can do in advancing film study. (CH)

A study is proposed to address five questions about the interrelationship of instructional intent and film form and style: (1) What are the stylistic elements within the teaching film, and how are these elements used to present epistemological content? (2) Does the instructional component of the teaching film take on a formal or stylistic function…

This selective annotated bibliography lists reference sources held by the McGill Libraries. Focusing on a scholarly approach to the film as art, the guide emphasizes the feature film, the documentary, and the technical aspects of film production, rather than educational films. Approximately 100 citations are arranged in 3 major groups. Part 1,…

Analyzes the split between teaching film study and teaching film making. (CH)

A humanistic assessment of the "structured" films of the New American Cinema. (CH)

This article discusses the history of American documentary films and examines several specific films. Any documentary has the primary job of reacting a virtual reality and maintaining an impression of immediate experience. While this has remained a constant requirement, the formal conventions which filmmakers use to create the virtual reality have…

Suggestions about general organization and detailed planning for filmmaking are presented in this second in a series of three articles. Technical matters such as the capabilities of various camera systems and comparisons of film stocks are not discussed; mention is made, however, of the best available sources of information on these subjects.…

Traces Spencer William's career in films from his early work as a performer and writer in Hollywood to his later achievements in writing and producing his own films. Discusses his two primitive religious films--"The Blood of Jesus" and "Go Down Death"--as well as some of his other films. (GW)