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Practical Cinematography
and its Applications
BY THE SAME AUTHOR.
Price 6s. net each.
MOVING PICTURES: How theyare Made and Worked.
LIGHTSHIPS AND LIGHTHOUSES.
THE STEAMSHIP CONQUEST OF THE WORLD.
THE RAILWAY CONQUEST OF THE WORLD.
LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN.
How to take Moving-pictures of Wild Animals in Safety.
Messrs. Newman built a huge dummy cow fifteen feet in height ofpapier-mâché. The operator stands inside with his camera and thepictures are taken through a small hinged door. With this "property"dangerous animals can be approached closely.
Practical Cinematography
and its Applications
By
Frederick A. Talbot
Author of
"Moving Pictures" etc.
London MCMXIII
William Heinemann
This volume has been written with the express purpose of assisting theamateur—the term is used in its broadest sense as a distinction fromthe salaried, attached professional worker—who is attracted towardscinematography. It is not a technical treatise, but is written in sucha manner as to enable the tyro to grasp the fundamental principles ofthe art, and the apparatus employed in its many varied applications.
While it is assumed that the reader has practised ordinary snap-shotand still-life work, and thus is familiar with the elements ofphotography, yet the subject is set forth in such a manner as to enableone who never has attempted photography to take moving-pictures.
At the same time it is hoped that the volume may prove of use to theexpert hand, by introducing him to what may be described as the higherbranches of the c