The British Universities Film & Video Council is delighted to announce the
joint publication of the DVD of the documentary THE ORIGINS OF SCIENTIFIC
CINEMATOGRAPHY and the accompanying book by Virgilio Tosi, Cinema Before
Cinema.
THE ORIGINS OF SCIENTIFIC CINEMATOGRAPHY is a three-part documentary film
series directed by Virgilio Tosi. These acclaimed films use 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.
Subjects covered include Jules Janssen¹s Œphotographic revolver¹ (1873-4),
Eadweard Muybridge's development of serial photography of human and animal
locomotion (1878-87); Étienne-Jules Marey's Œphotographic gun¹ (1882), and
his models of the Chronophotographe (1882-93); technical advancements of
scientific cinematography between 1883 and 1914 in different countries; and
a compilation of sequences from twenty fascinating scientific films, made
between 1895 and 1911.
Cinema Before Cinema is a classic history of early film and photography,
first published in 1984. Available in English for the first time, it
describes the scientific impulses behind sequence photographers such as
Eadweard Muybridge and Étienne-Jules Marey, whose work led directly to the
birth of cinema. Tosi tells of the achievements of those chronophotographers
who followed Marey, such as Georges Demeny and Albert Londe, and looks at
the innovations of such noted scientific filmmakers as Lucien Bull, Jean
Comandon and Eugène-Louis Doyen.
Cinema Before Cinema is an essential text for all those interested in the
history of cinema, the history of photography, and in the application of
moving images to the needs of education and science.
THE ORIGINS OF SCIENTIFIC CINEMATOGRAPHY DVD and Cinema Before Cinema book
are available for a special joint price of £75.00 (£60.00 to BUFVC members).
Individual prices:
The Origins of Scientific Cinematography DVD
97 mins, col/bw, in English. Region 0. Available in PAL or NTSC formats.
Full price: £50.00 (BUFVC member¹s price: £42.50)
Cinema Before Cinema
Paperback, ISBN: 0-901299-75-8, 248 pages
Full price: £29.99 (BUFVC member¹s price: £25.00)
All prices include UK postage and packing (add £5.00 postage and packing for
delivery outside the UK)
To order, visit http://www.bufvc.ac.uk/publications/dvd.html
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Phone: +44 (0)20 7393 1500 (for credit card purchases, please phone 020 7393
1519)
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British Universities Film & Video Council
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Tel: 020 7393 1508
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