Wonderful Inventions : Motion Pictures, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound At the Library of Congress / Edited by Iris Newsom ; with an Introduction by Erik Barnouw

Newsom, Iris (Ed. )

ISBN 10: 0844404454 / ISBN 13: 9780844404455

Published by Washington : The Library, 1985

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An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw. Complete with two 12 inch records in printed, stiff-card, folding sleeve. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 384 pages; Copiously illustrated, complete with two, 12 inch records. Description: x, 384 p. : ill. (some col. ) ; 32 cm. + 2 sound discs (analog, 33 1/3 rpm, mono. ; 12 in. ) . Subjects: Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division. 2 Kg.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Wonderful Inventions : Motion Pictures, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound At the Library of Congress / Edited by Iris Newsom ; with an Introduction by Erik Barnouw
• Publisher: Washington : The Library
• Publication Date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0844404454
• ISBN 13: 9780844404455
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Weight: 2 kilograms

About this title

Synopsis

This anthology provides a brief introduction to the vast archive of materials at the Library of Congress related to radio programs, films, television shows, and sound recordings.

The film section concentrates on directors, cameramen, actors, music, restoration, preservation, and some of the treasures in the Library's motion picture collections. It was written by participants, on-the-scene observers, and interviewers, as well as by researchers, historians, and scholars. The broadcasting and recorded sound sections are similarly broadly based and well researched. Reminiscences are juxtaposed with in-depth analyses and range in time from the silent era and the early days of the recording and television industries to the present age of highly sophisticated techniques such as those employed by the Disney Studios and the makers of Star Trek.

This varied collection of essays is enhanced by over four hundred stills, frame enlargements, and other illustrations (some in color), more than sixty musical examples, two twelve-inch records of film music, biographies of the authors, and an extensive index.