This brief history of the cinema surveys the birth, development, and modern period of silent and sound films. The approach seeks out major "auteurs" of film, discusses their more artistic works, and places them in historical perspective. Commentary on the aesthetic nature of film includes speculation on the relationship of sound to…

This reference book catalogues nearly every commercial film produced in Britain for public entertainment from 1895 to 1970. The entries are listed chronologically by year and month. Each entry is limited to a single film and contains a cross index code number, exhibition date, main title, length, color system, production company, distribution…

This cross-reference directory to the resources of film and video personnel and services in Texas is divided into eight sections: who's who, pre-production, production, post-production, video, miscellaneous, major city information, and addenda. The first section contains alphabetical listings of companies and individuals engaged in some aspect of…

To parallel Lester Asheim's doctoral thesis that compared the endings of 24 novels with their 1935-1945 filmed adaptations, this study examined the endings of 88 films produced between 1946 and 1977, comparing the literary endings with the filmed endings by the same criteria that Asheim used. The data indicate both similarities and differences to…

This paper argues that film courses are useful because they sensitize students both to the artistic qualities of film expression and to equivalent qualities in other forms of expression. The objectives of a film course at Michigan State University are: to develop the students' knowledge of the film medium and through that knowledge develop a…

This book is a chronological history of the "newsreel" from its beginnings in 1889 to the collapse of the last newsreel production company in 1967. The newsreel is traced from its birth in the United States and France, through its flowering in the "March of Time" and other series, to its demise due to competition with televised…

More than 100 films, selected for use in college-level French programs, are evaluated in this teaching guide. Films are listed alphabetically under the following categories: (1) "Beaux-Arts," (2) "La France Contemporaine," (3) "La France et le Nouveau Monde," (4) "Histoire," and (5) "Langue." The index gives an alphabetical list of all the films…

Most modern language teachers consider commercial films prepared for native speakers of the target language useful as a teaching device only for advanced students. The results of an analysis of the vocabulary content of "High Tide at Noon" seem to indicate that any student with a basic English vocabulary could follow the script. (CFM)

This paper describes a two-credit, one-semester course on the instructional film, which has been taught at Southern Illinois University. The class meets twice a week: the first of the weekly sessions is used for lectures and guest speakers, and the second session is used for viewing and analysis of films. The paper describes topics covered in…

Some of the "quality short films" available today are far more effective for film study than the traditional instructional films. The explicit learning from the noninstructional type of film (e.g., "You're No Good," the story of a young dropout) must occur through inference as the impact of the film is deepened through provocative class…

This book surveys the roles of blacks in the film industry. The introduction discusses the question if why there should be a black cinema. The seventeen sections of the book discuss such people and topics as the black actor, movies and life and black people, Sidney Poitier as the black superstar, Diahann Carroll and black female singers in movies,…

The development of black films and the attitudes of the film industry toward black films and black actors are some of the topics examined in this anthology of essays. Section 1, "Nigger to Supernigger," contains such articles as "The Death of Rastus: Negroes in American Films" by Thomas R. Cripps and "Folk Values in a New Medium" by Alain Locke…

All courses in film and television offered in Canadian colleges and universities are collectively listed. Classification is by province and by institution. Courses are enumerated and described, and a source for further information provided. An alphabetical index of institutions also is included. The document is in both English and French. (SK)

A major problem in the use of films in instruction is to get the right film to the right teacher when he wants it and needs it, and to do all this at a minimum cost. This paper presents a view of film distribution systems in terms of two interrelated subsystems: a logistic subsystem and a behavioral subsystem. The logistic subsystem consists of…

This study deals primarily with recent academically oriented critical material, but it also embraces the range of film criticism that has been written for the mass audience in newspapers and periodicals. The study considers eight types of critical approaches to analyzing film: the journalistic approach, which contains both a reportorial-review and…