H. Mario Raimondo-Souto is an Uruguayan filmmaker.

Table of Contents

Preface

PART I-THE BEGINNINGS

1. Chronology of an Invention

2. The First Cameramen

3. Motion Picture Cameras and Lenses

4. The First Studios

5. Film Processing

6. Color and Film Formats

7. First Conflicts and Wars

PART II-THE TWENTIES

8. Cameras

9. Shooting Implements and Systems

10. Studios of the Twenties

11. The Work of the Studio Cameraman

12. The Mobile Camera

13. Lighting Techniques

14. The Silent Newsreel

15. The Cameraman in Exotic Lands

16. Motion Picture Laboratories

17. Trick Cinematography

18. Outstanding Cinematography

PART III-THE THIRTIES

19. Cameras

20. New Film Studios

21. All Talking Newsreels

22. New Lighting Techniques

23. Advances in Special Effects

24. New Color Systems

25. Progress and New Technology

26. Cinematographers

27. Outstanding Cinematography

PART IV-THE FORTIES

28. The Film Industry in the Forties

29. Cameras

30. The Combat Cameraman

31. Color in the Forties

32. Best Cinematography

PART V-THE FIFTIES

33. General View of the Decade

34. Cameras

35. New Screen Techniques

36. Mid-Century Technology

37. Cinematographers of the Fifties

Closing Words
Notes
Bibliography
Index