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  1. Functioning of Nematocysts, The (1962 Film)

    Director
    R Weill
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Studies the structure and functioning of nematocysts using micro-cinematography and animated diagrams. Shows various experiments on different families of sea anemones.

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  2. Google Doodle honours Louis Daguerre

    Date
    18 Nov 2011, 09:57
    Author
    bufvcsergio
    Post Type
    Post

    A Google Doodle has been created to honour Louis Daguerre (1787–1851), who devised the daguerreotype, the first successful form of permanent photography. Those interested in the development of early cinema...

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  3. High Speed Studies of Projection Welding (1967 Film, Video)

    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    High-speed cinematography, in conjunction with special half-section projections and electrodes, is used to illustrate the behaviour of projections of various heights and shapes.

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  4. Origins of Scientific Cinematography, The (1994)

    Director
    Hans-Karl Galle; Virgilio Tosi
    Subject
    Science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 104 minutes), £49.99

    A DVD of the 3-volume video set produced during 1990-1993 to illustrate the book of the same title by Virgilio Tosi. Part 1: A compilation of documentary film sequences arranged chronologically in six...

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  5. World You Never See, The (Detailed Close-Ups from the World of Wildlife) (1974 Film)

    Subject
    Film & television production
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    The work of Oxford Scientific Films unit in the England, showing production techniques employed and examples of nature film-making.

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  6. Language of Film & TV, The (2005)

    aka: Language of Film and Television, The

    Subject
    Film studies; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 26 minutes), £49.00 (DVD), £20.00 (1 Year Digital Licence), £49.00 (3 Year Digital Licence)

    Using a playful narrative structure, this programme outlines the most common stylistic techniques of film language used to communicate with the viewer. The programme highlights the importance of character,...

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  7. Computer That Ate Hollywood, The (1998 Video)

    Producer
    Nigel Paterson
    Subject
    Film & television production
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min.

    Looks at how special effects in motion pictures have moved forward during a century of cinema, culminating in today’s state-of-the art illusions, showing examples from ‘Titanic’. Discusses the use of...

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  8. Animated Motion Frame by Frame (5 Parts) (1976)

    Director
    Norman McLaren
    Producer
    Norman McLaren
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Five films in which Norman McLaren comments on, demonstrates and classifies the aspects of motion which the animator employs in his daily work. Part 1 explains how the animator makes his still pictures...

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  9. Cinema Before Cinema: The Origins of Scientific Cinematography

    Date
    18 Aug 2015, 10:56
    Author
    bufvcsergio
    Post Type
    Page

    This classic history of early film and photography, first published in 1984, describes the scientific impulses behind sequence photographers such as Eadweard Muybridge and E.J. Marey, whose work led directly...

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  10. Cinematography: A Modern History of Filmmaking

    Date
    17 Dec 2015, 09:56
    Author
    Ben Hodson
    Post Type
    BUFVC Review

    Cinematography: A Modern History of Filmmaking Edited by Patrick Keaton I.B.Tauris (April 2015), 224 pages, ISBN: 978-1784530198 (paperback), £14.99; ISBN: 978-0813563503 (hardback), £58 About the...

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