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Fall 1969

Film preservation at the Musem of Modern Art, Eadweard Muybridge’s contribution to the motion picture, the serious business of being funny, student film production, Warrendale, Titicut Follies, television breaks a new art form, Bergamo festival

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Lost Ones
By Herman G. Weinberg

The Study and Preservation of Films at the Museum of Modern Art
By Lillian Gerard

Les Allures du Cheval: Eadweard James Muybridge’s Contribution to the Motion Picture
By Harlan Hamilton

In Memoriam: H. d’Abbadie d’Arrast, 1897-1968
By Herman G. Weinberg

The Serious Business of Being Funny
By Harold Lloyd

Basic Guides for Student Film Production
By Thomas J. Genelli

Two…But Not of a Kind: Warrendale and Titicut Follies
By Dr. Paul Bradlow

Television Station Breaks a New Art Form
By Richard J. Meyer

Television for Children, Socialist Style
By Rose Forman

A Report on the Bergamo Festival
By Frank Nulf

Rise of the American Film
By Martin S. Dworkin

Book Reviews

The Disney Version—The Life, Times, Art and Commerce of Walt Disney by Richard Schickel
Reviewed by Cecile Starr

Valentino by Irving Shulman
Reviewed by Robert Steele

Keaton by Rudi Blesh
Reviewed by William K. Everson

All Talking! All Singing! All Dancing!—A Pictorial History of the Movie Musical by John Springer
Reviewed by William K. Everson

Tower of Babel, Speculations on the Cinema by Eric Rhode
Reviewed by William K. Everson

Horror! by Drake Douglas
Reviewed by William K. Everson

An Illustrated History of the Horror Films by Carlos Clarens
Reviewed by William K. Everson

Sacha Guitry, The Last Boulevardier by James Harding
Reviewed by Herman G. Weinberg

Marlene Dietrich by John Kobal
Reviewed by Herman G. Weinberg

Silent Star by Colleen Moore
Reviewed by Herman G. Weinberg

With Eisenstein in Hollywood—A Chapter of Autobiography by Ivor Montagu
Reviewed by Herman G. Weinberg

Seventy Years of Cinema by Peter Cowie
Reviewed by Herman G. Weinberg

Esthetique et Psychologie du Cinema, Volumes 1 and 2 by Jean Mitry
Reviewed by Herman G. Weinberg

What is Cinema? by André Bazin
Reviewed by J. Dudley Andrew

The Lubitsch Touch—A Critical Study of the Great Film Director by Herman G. Weinberg
Reviewed by Prof. Frank Manchel

Due to Circumstances Beyond our Control by Fred W. Friendly
Reviewed by Dr. Richard J. Meyer