Cinema Before Cinema: The Origins of Scientific Cinematography
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 to the birth of cinema. Now entitled Cinema Before Cinema: The Origins of Scientific Cinematography, the book has been updated to include recent research in the field. The English translation was done by BUFVC Library and Database Manager Sergio Angelini. The BUFVC is the distributor of the English-language version of the film series THE ORIGINS OF SCIENTIFIC CINEMATOGRAPHY, which Tosi produced over 1990-1993 to complement his written researches. The BUFVC has produced a DVD edition of the films, to mark the publication of the English edition of the book.
Written by Virgilio Tosi Translated by Sergio Angelini
1st English edition, October 2005 ISBN 0-901299-75-8 248pp
Price £29.99 (£25.00 to BUFVC members) plus £2.50 postage and packing within the UK, £6 elsewhere.
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THE ORIGINS OF SCIENTIFIC CINEMATOGRAPHY DVD, a documentary film series directed by Virgilio Tosi. These films complement Tosi’s book Cinema Before Cinema, using archive film and original equipment to show how cinematography had its origins not in the music hall or the fairground, but in the laboratory, as scientists of the 19th and early 20th centuries attempted to find new ways of seeing and measuring the natural world.
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