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File Note: The early days of radio development were paralleled by extensive experimentation with photography, cinema and television. The texts referred to below, concentrate primarily on the the period 1885 - 1935, i.e., from around the generally recognised 'practical' beginings of each medium through to, in the case of photography; 35mm colour film, cinema; colour feature films with integrated, synchronised sound and in television; the adoption of 'electronic' over the earlier, so called, 'mechanical' systems.

Light, Optics, Optical Illusions, etc.

Brusati, Celeste, 1995, Artifice and Illusion: The Art and Writing of Samuel van Hoogstraten, University of Chigago Press, Chicago, USA., ISBN: 0226077853

Van Hoogstraten (1627-1678) was a talented pupil and early critic of Rembrandt as well as the author of a major Dutch treatise on painting. Brusati (art history, U. of Michigan) examines his writing, illusionistic pictures, ingenious perspective boxes, and witty trompe l'oeil images and their role in forging his professional and social identity. She also explores the much- disputed nature of Dutch "realism," the notion of "experimental artistry," and the circumstances of his career, showing how he exploited the court patronage system to secure the worth of his work in the newer market culture of the Dutch republic. Ample b&w illustrations with 16 fine color plates. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Source: Booknews, Inc. , February 1, 1996

Byrne, David, 1992, Light: A Collins Eyewitness Guide, Collins (Australia), ISBN 0 7322 0111 X

Churchill, E., Richard, 1989, How to make Optical Illusion Tricks and Toys, Sterling Inc., New York, USA, ISBN 0 8069 6869 9

Cole, Alison, 1993, Perspective: A Collins Eyewitness Guide to Art, Collins (Australia), ISBN: 1 5645 8068 7

Christie's International (Eds.), 1992, Cameras, Photographic Equipment and Optical Toys, Auction Catalogue, Christie's London, UK.,

Hankins, Thomas, L. and Silverman, Robert , J., 1995, Instruments and the Imagination, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ., USA., ISBN: 0691029970

Kemp, Martin, 1990, The Science of Art: Optical Themes in Western Art from Brunelleschi to Seurat, Yale University Press, London UK., ISBN 0 300 04337 6

Koningsberger, Hans, 1967, The World of Vermeer, 1632 - 1675, Time Life Books Inc. , New York, USA, ISBN 900658 58 4

Kukes, Roger, 1985, The Zoetrope Book, from the Series: 'Klassroom Kinetics', Portland, Or, USA, ISBN 0 9622330 0 5

Jennings, Terry, 1996, 101 Optical Illusions: Amazing Visual Tricks and Experiments Macdonald Young Books, East Sussex, UK., ISBN 0 7500 1899 pbk.

Leeman, Fred, 1976, Hidden Images: Games of Perception, Anamorphic Art, Illusion from the Renaissance to the Present, H., N Adams, New York, USA., ASIN: 0810990199

McLoughlin Brothers, McLoughlin, John C., 1989, Magic Mirror, an Antique Optical Toy, Dover Publications; ISBN: 0 4862 3847 4

Oetermann, Stephan and Schneider, Deborah Lucas (transl.), The Panorama: History of Mass Medium, Zone Books, ISBN 0 942 29983 3

Pragnel, Hubert, John, 1968, The London Panoramas of Robert Barker and Thomas Girtin, circa 1800, London Topographical Society, London, UK., ASIN: 0902087002

Rogers, Nigel, (Ed.), 1998, Incredible Optical Illusions, Universal International P/L, London, UK., ISBN 1 876142 52 9

Wheelock Jr., Arthur, 1988, Vermeer, Thames and Hudson, London, UK., ISBN 0 500 08031 3

Photography

Coe, Brian, 1973, George Eastman and the Early Photographers, Priory Press, London, SBN 85078 116 7

Coe, Brian, 1977, The Birth of Photography: The Story of the formative years 1800 - 1900, Hutchinson, Australia, 0 09 130280 1

Coe, Brian, 1978, Colour Photography: The First 100 years 1840 - 1940, Ash and Grant, London, UK, ISBN 0 904069 24 9

Coe, Brian, 1978, The Camera: From Daguerrotype to Instant Picture, Marshall Cavendish, London, UK., 0 85685 448 4

Christie's International (Eds.), 1992, Cameras, Photographic Equipment and Optical Toys, Auction Catalogues, (Various incl. 3/98) Christie's London, UK.,

Cröy-Roeulx, Prince R. de, 1997, Cameras, Chronicle Books San Francisco, CA., USA, ISBN 0 8118 1471 8

Gernsheim, Helmut and Gernsheim, Alison, 1968, L.J.M. Daguerre : The History of the Diorama and the Daguerreotype, Dover, ASIN: 0 4862 2290 X

Gernsheim, Helmut, 1982, The Origins of Photography, Thames and Hudson, London, UK., ISBN 0 500 54080 2

Gilbert, George, 1976, Collecting Photographica: The Images and Equipment of the First Hundred Years of Photography Hawthorn Books, NY., USA, ISBN 0 8015 1408 8

Hammond, John, H., and Austin, Jill, 1987, The Camera Lucida in Art and Science, ASIN: 0 8527 4527 3

Hammond, John, H., 1991, Camera Obscura : A Chronicle, ASIN: 0 8527 4451 X

Newhall, Beaumont, (Ed.), Photography: Essays and Images. Illustrated Readings in the History of Photography, MOMA, New York, USA., ISBN 0 87070 385 4

Picknett, Lynn and Prince, Clive, 1995, Turin Shroud : In Whose Image? the Truth Behind the Centuries-Long Conspiracy of Silence, ASIN: 0 0609 2677 5

At last the mystery is solved... The Turin Shroud. To many it is the holiest of Christianity's holy relics. The winding sheet of Christ. The cloth that his crucified body was wrapped in as he lay in the tomb, and which miraculously bears his image. To millions it has been a mystery whose origin has been debated for hundreds of years. Is the Turin Shroud the winding sheet of Christ? Is it his image that appears on the cloth, and, if so, how did it come to appear there? How does one reconcile the carbon dating which shows the shroud to have originated around the fourteenth century? Or is the cloth a carefully constructed fraud? A fraud so ingeniously conceived that its creation has baffled experts from around the world. Now, the true, shocking story of the Turin Shroud is revealed. In an investigation that is part detective story, part historical research and part scientific experiment, Turin Shroud reveals that the creator of the Shroud, and the man whose image appears on it, was actually one of the most brilliant and creative men the world has ever known - Leonardo da Vinci. Turin Shroud also shows the ingenious and revolutionary technique da Vinci used to create the image, making the Shroud the world's first photograph. But the image on the Shroud is only half the story. As the authors delve deep into the Shroud's mysterious history, they reveal its connection to one of the world's most secret societies. A powerful organization that has claimed as members some of the most important figures in European history and will stop at nothing to protect the Shroud. Turin Shroud finally uncovers the secrets behind this great mystery and challenges some of the most fundamental views about our past, not only religious and artistic but also technological.

Source: Amazon.com

Pollack, Peter, 1963, The Picture History of Photography: From the Earliest Beginnings to the Present Day, Thames and Hudson, London, UK., ISBN 0 500 27101 1

Rosenblum, Naomi, 1984, A World History of Photography, Abbeville Press, Inc.; NY., USA., ISBN: 0 7892 0329 4

Time Life (Eds.), 1970, The Camera: Life Library of Photography, (Chapter 4, The Little Black Box: From Camera Obscura to Instamatic), Time Life Books, Time Inc., NY, USA

Willsberger, Johann, 1977, The History of Photography: Cameras, Pictures, Photographers, Doubleday, Garden City, NY, USA, ISBN 0 385 12664 6

Sound Recording

Chew, V. K., 1967, Talking Machines 1877 - 1914: Some Aspects of the Early History of the Gramophone, A Science Museum, London Booklet, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, UK

Gelatt, Roland, 1977, The Fabulous Phonograph, 1877-1977, MacMillan Publishing Company, UK, ISBN: 0020326807

Read, Oliver, 1976, From Tin Foil to Stereo: Evolution of the Phonograph, Sams, USA, ISBN: 0672212064

Steffens, Bradley, 1992, Phonograph: Sound on Disk The Encyclopedia of Discovery and Invention, Lucent Books, USA, ISBN: 1560062223

Welch, Walter L., Brodbeck, Leah and Burt, Stenzel, 1994, From Tin Foil to Stereo: The Acoustic Years of the Recording Industry 1877-1929, Univ Pr of Florida, USA, ISBN: 0813013178

Cinema

Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS), 1996, Media International Australia, Issue No: 80, Cinema, Past and Present, ISSN 1324 5325

Australian Film Institute, James Sabine, (Ed.), 1995, A Century of Australian Cinema, Mandarin Australia, (Reed Books) Australia, ISBN 1 86 330 449 5

Allen, Don, (Ed.), 1976, The World of Film and Filmmakers: A Visual History, A Chris Milsome Book, Crown Publishers, NY, USA, ISBN 0 517 53662 5

Allister, Ray, (Pseud. Muriel Forth) 1948, Friese-Greene: Close-up of an Inventor, Marsland Publications Ltd., London, UK, Reprint 1972, The Arno Press Literature of Cinema Series, Arno Press Inc., NY., USA, ISBN 0 405 03908 5

Balzer, Richard, Date, Optical Amusements: Magic Lanterns and other Transforming Images

Balzer, Richard, 1988, Peepshows : A Visual History, Harry N Abrams, ISBN: 0 810 96349 3

[The word] Peep show connotes cheap, coarse, illicit entertainment, but Balzer points out that a peep show is just "a closed, or semi-closed, box having at least one viewing hole." Originally a medium of itinerant exhibitors, the peep show was popular at fairs and on city streets, where vendors would sing and "sound" musical instruments (as opposed to playing music on them) to attract and amuse a crowd waiting patiently for turns to pay for a glimpse through the viewing hole. A glimpse of what? Well, the menu of attractions was limited only by proprietor creativity. Risque attractions existed, but in their heyday peep shows featured panoramic displays and artistic and fantastic treatments for general audiences--family entertainment, that is. Many displays were simple dioramas with lighting effects provided by candles or light flaps. More elaborate peep shows incorporated hand-cranked or hook-and-string mechanisms that allowed display of multiple and moving images. Beautifully and copiously illustrated, well documented, Balzer's presentation of a nearly forgotten popular entertainment is excellent history, excellent amusement. Copyright© 1998, American Library Association. All rights reserved.

Source: Booklist, 05/15/98

Barnes, John, 1998, The Beginnings of the Cinema in England, Volume 1: 1894 - 1896, (Revised Version, Univ of Exeter Pr; ISBN: 0 8598 9564 5

Barnes, John, 1997, The Beginnings of the Cinema in England, Volume 2: 1897, (Reprint: Univ of Exeter, UK., ISBN: 0 8598 9519 X

Barnes, John, 1997, The Beginnings of the Cinema in England, Volume 3: 1898, (Reprint: Univ of Exeter, UK., ISBN: 0 8598 9520 3

Barnes, John, 1997, The Beginnings of the Cinema in England, Volume 4: 1899, (Reprint: Univ of Exeter, UK., ISBN: 0 8598 9521 1

Barnes, John, 1997, The Beginnings of the Cinema in England, Volume 5: 1900, (Reprint: Univ of Exeter, UK., ISBN: 0 8598 9522 X

Barnouw, Eric, 1981, The Magician and the Cinema, OUP, Oxford, UK., ISBN 0 19 502918 6

Bawden, Liz-Anne, (Ed.), 1976, The Oxford Companion to Film, OUP, London, UK, ISBN 0 19 211541 3

Baxter, John, 1986, Filmstruck: Australia at The Movies, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Sydney, Australia, ISBN 0 642 52737 7

Calzettoni, Fabrice, 1994, (Ed. and retold by Parker, Steve, 1995), The Lumiere Brothers and the Cinema, Belitha Press, London, UK ISBN 1 85561 382 4

Ceram, C. W., 1965, Archaeology of the Cinema, Thames and Hudson, London, UK

Chanen, Michael, 1980, The Dream That Kicks: The Prehistory and Early Years of Cinema in Britain, Routlege & Kegan Paul, London, UK., ISBN 0 7100 0319 6

Christie, Ian, 1994, The Last Machine: Early Cinema and the Birth of the Modern World, BBC Educational Developments (in cooperation with the British Film Institute) London, UK., ISBN 1 86000 094 0

Coe, Brian, 1962, William Friese Greene and the Origins of Cinematography, 'The Photographic Journal' March 1962, pp 92 - 104, April 1962 pp. 121 - 127

Coe, Brian, 1981, The History of Movie Photography, Eastview Editions N.J, USA., ISBN 0 89860 067 7

Connolly, Brendan and Tod, Les, 1996, Paddocks, Palaces and Picture Shows: The Colourful History of the Cinemas of the Central Coast of New South Wales, The Australian Cinema and Theatre Society, Inc. NSW, Australia, ISBN 0 9588069 8 5

Cook, Olive, 1963, Movement in Two Directions, Hutchinson, London, UK.,

Curran, James and Porter, Vincent (Eds.), British Cinema History, Barnes and Noble Books, Totowa, New Jersey, USA., ISBN 0 389 20417 X

Dickson W.K.L. and Antonia Dickson, 1895, History of the Kinetograph, Kinetoscope and Kinetophonograph, Reprint 1994, The Arno Press Literature of Cinema Series, Arno Press Inc., NY., USA, ISBN 0 405 01611 5

Fell, John L., (Ed.), 1983, Film Before Griffith, Univ. of California Press, USA., ISBN 0 520 04758 3 (pbk.)

Fielding, Raymond, (Ed.), 1967, (1983 pbk.), A Technological History of Motion Pictures and Television: An Anthology from the pages of the Journal of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, University of California (Berkeley) Press, ISBN 0 520 05064 9

Friedman, Jeffrey, (Ed.), 1991, Milestones in Motion Picture and Television Technology: The SMPTE 75th Anniversary Collection 1916 - 1991, SMPTE, ISBN 0 940690 19 5

Harding, Colin, and Simon Popple. 1996, In the Kingdom of Shadows: a Companion to Early Cinema, London: Cygnus Arts; Madison & Teaneck: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, ISBN 1 900541 05 X (hbk).

One of the best sourcebooks on the early cinema to appear in Britain, In the Kingdom of Shadows combines the production values of a high-class coffee-table book with an exemplary selection of material for the scholar and general enthusiast alike. Contemporary accounts of responses to the new medium between 1895 and the First World War are reproduced together with lavish amounts of high-quality illustration, divided into ten broad categories each with its own brief introduction. Most of the accounts and images are republished for the first time, and the range of sources and the responses they illustrate suggests numerous new ways of approaching the early years of the moving picture. Also particularly welcome are contributions by Stephen Bottomore, Richard Brown and Vanessa Toulmin, introducing further contemporary sources. A few too many typos have slipped through, but this is a small quibble compared to the ambitious conception of the whole project. Well worth its cover price; an essential reference for anyone with even a passing interest in the early years.[RC]

Source: Bill Douglas Centre for the History of Cinema and Popular Culture: News and listings: recent and forthcoming publications

Hecht, Hermann, Hecht, Ann, (Ed.), 1993, Pre-Cinema History: an Encyclopaedia and Annotated Bibliography of the Moving Image before 1896, Bowker-Saur, London, UK., ASIN: 1 8573 9056 3

Covering the history of projection, visual entertainments, and the beginnings of the cinema to 1896, this fascinating reference is a chronologically arranged and annotated list of published works and sources up to the year 1985, the year in which Hermann Hecht died. The entries are in the order of publication stating from the beginning of the 16th century; each entry is numbered in bold type for easy identification and cross-referencing purposes. Entries include full bibliographic references, content summaries, quotations from contemporary literature, and critical notes. Extensive indexes by name and subject enhance access. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Source:Booknews, Inc., March 1, 1994

Hendricks, Gordon, 1961, Origins of the American Film, Reprint 1972, The Arno Press Literature of Cinema Series, Arno Press Inc., NY, USA, ISBN 0 405 03919 0

Hepworth, Thomas C., 1899, The Book of the Lantern, Hazel Watson and Viney, London UK, republished 1978 under The Arno Press series Aspects of Film, Arno Press Inc. NY., USA, ISBN 0 405 11132 0

Hepworth, Cecil, 1900, Animated Photography: The ABC of the Cinematograph, Second Edition revised and brought up to date by Hector McLean, Reprint 1970, The Arno Press Literature of Cinema Series, Arno Press Inc., NY., USA, ISBN: 0 405 01615 8

Herbert, Stephen and McKernan, Luke (Eds.), 1996, Who's Who of Victorian Cinema: a Worldwide Survey, London: BFI Publishing, ISBN 0 85170 539 1 (hbk).

Drawing together contributions by 23 eminent historians of the early moving picture, this wonderful book gives short potted biographies of over 250 people (and one horse) whose influences on the early cinema were vital in one way or another. These range from the boxer James Corbett to Queen Victoria, via inventors, showmen, film-makers, actors, publishers... An eclectic and intelligent selection which includes all the usual suspects, and a good few unusual ones too. The book is a small masterpiece - it creates a unique cross-section of the personnel and personalities of the embryo film industry, with an entertaining and readable style which is the opposite of a dry reference work. A critical bibliography gives an invaluable survey of the most useful further sources and their significance, and together with a short technical essay and a list of some of the exotic terminology of early moving picture machines makes this a remarkably comprehensive work for its length. Undoubtedly the best quick reference source on the practitioners of early moving picture yet published. [RC]

Source: Bill Douglas Centre for the History of Cinema and Popular Culture: News and listings: recent and forthcoming publications

Hopwood, Henry, V., 1899, Living Pictures: Their History, Photo-Production and Practical Working, The Optical Trades Review, London, UK., Reprint 1970, The Arno Press Literature of Cinema Series, Arno Press Inc., NY., USA, ISBN: 0 405 01616 6

Hunter, Nigel, 1989, Cinema, Wayland Publishers Ltd., East Sussex, UK, ISBN 1 85210 773 1

Jenkins, Charles, F., 1898, Animated Pictures, H. L. McQueen, Washington, USA, Reprint 1970, The Arno Press Literature of Cinema Series, Arno Press Inc., NY., USA, ISBN 0 405 01619 0

Library of Congress, (Eds.), 1985, Wonderful Inventions: Motion Pictures, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound at the Library of Congress, Washington DC., ISBN O-8444-0445-4

Low, Rachael and Manvell, 1948, (2nd imp. 1973), The History of the British Film: Volume 1, 1896 - 1906, George Allen & Unwin Ltd., London, ISBN 0 04 791002 4

Mannoni, Laurent, Pesenti Campagnoni, Donata, and Robinson, David, 1995, Light and Movement: Incunabula of the Motion Picture, 1420-1896, Gemona, Italy, British Film Inst; ISBN: 8 8861 5505 0

Manvell, Dr., Roger and Jacobs, Prof. Lewis, 1972, The International Encyclopedia of Film, Rainbird Reference Books Ltd., London, SBN 7181 1016 1

Monaco, James, 1977, How to Read a Film: The Art Technology, Language, History and Theory of Film and Media, (1981 Revised Edition), OUP, NY, USA, ISBN 0 19 502806 6

Musser, Charles, 1994, The Emergence of Cinema: Volume 1 of 2, The American Screen to 1907, University of California Press, Los Angeles, Calif. USA, ISBN 0 520 08533 7

Musser, Charles, 1995, Thomas A. Edison and his Kinographic Motion Pictures, Published by Rutgers University Press, NJ, USA, for Friends of the Edison National Historic Site, ISBN 0 8135 2210 2

North, Joseph H., 1949, The Early Development of the Motion Picture: 1887 - 1909, Reprint 1973, The Arno Press series Dissertations on Film, Arno Press Inc., NY., USA, ISBN 0 405 0401 2

Nutley, ?., with Robinson, D., (Ed.), 1993, The Lantern Image: Iconography of the Magic Lantern, 1420-1880, The Magic Lantern Society of Great Britain, London, UK.,

Oetermann, Stephan and Schneider, Deborah, Lucas (Stephan Oetermann Translator), The Panorama : History of a Mass Medium, Zone Books; ISBN: 0942299833

Within the wide-ranging contemporary debates about visuality and modern forms of spectacle, there is frequent reference to the significance of panorama painting in the nineteenth century. Since concrete historical information about the panorama has not been readily available for English-language readers, this translation of Stephan Oettermann's THE PANORAMA: HISTORY OF A MASS MEDIUM will be especially welcome. This in-depth study offers a valuable and much needed source of ideas and documentation about one of the most influential forms of visual display and popular entertainment in the nineteenth century. In this richly illustrated book, Oettermann gives readers a palpable sense of the structural and experiential reality of the panorama and the many forms it took throughout Europe and North America--an essential task since very little physical evidence of the panoramas survives. At the same time, he outlines the many ways in which these remarkable and often immense 360-degree images were part of a larger modernization of the status of the observer and of mass culture. Thus, the panorama is examined not only as a new kind of image but also as an architectural and informational component of the new urban spaces and media networks. For anyone involved in understanding the origins of contemporary visual culture this book will be indispensable.

Stephan Oetermann is a scholar, curator, and teacher. he has published widely on literature and the history of public entertainment.

Source: The publisher, November 25, 1997

Parkinson, David, 1995, History of Film, from the series World of Art, Thames and Hudson, NY, USAISBN0 500 20277 X

Pfragner, Julius, The Motion Picture : from Magic Lantern to Sound Film, Bailey and Swinfen, ISBN 0 5610 0182 0

Platt, Richard, 1992, Cinema: A Collins Eyewitness Guide, Collins Publishers (Australia), ISBN 0 7322 0065 2

Pragnel, Hubert, John, 1968, The London Panoramas of Robert Barker and Thomas Girtin, circa 1800, London Topographical Society, London, UK., ASIN: 0902087002

Ramsaye, Terry, 1926, A Million and one Nights: A History of the Development of Motion Pictures up to 1925, Published by Simon and Schuster 1926, reprint version by Touchstone Books, 1986, ISBN 0 671 62404 0

Rawlence, Christopher, 1990, The Missing Reel: The Untold Story of the The Lost Inventor of Moving Pictures, Fontana, London, UK, ISBN 0 00 637328 3

Rhodes, Eric, 1976, A History of the Cinema: From its Origins to 1970, Penguin Books, UK, ISBN 0 1402 2028 3

Robinson, David, 1996, From Peepshow to Palace: The Birth of American Film, Columbia Univ. Press, NY, USA 0 231 10338 7

Rossell, Deac, 1995, A Chronology of Cinema 1889-1896, Film History: An International Journey, Volume 7, Number 2, Summer, 1995, John Libbey, London, UK., ISBN 1995 0 86196 491 8

Rossell, Deac, 1998, Living Pictures: The Origins of the Movies, State University of New York Press, ISBN 0 7914 3768 X (pb: alk paper)

Sadoul, Georges, 1995, Founding Father: Louis Lumiere in conversation with Georges Sadoul, 'Projections: Film-makers on Film-making', Issue#4 Faber and Faber Boston, USA, ISBN 0 571 17363 2

Sanderson, Richard, E., 1961, The Development of American Motion Picture Content and Techniques Prior to 1904, Reprint 1977, The Arno Press series Dissertations on Film, Arno Press Inc., NY., USA, ISBN 0 405 09894 4

Sklar, Robert, c.1990, Film: An International History of the Medium, Thames and Hudson, UK, ISBN 0 500 01601 1

Slide, Anthony, 1979, Films on Film History, Metuchen, Scarecrow Press, NJ., USA., ASIN: 0 8108 1238 X

Smith, Albert E., and Koury, Phil., A., 1952, Two Reels and Crank: From Nickelodeon to Picture Palaces, Doubleday and Co., Garden City, NY, USA., Lib. of Congress No: 52 11617

Van Straten, Frank, (Ed.), Carter, Warren, (Designer), 1983, Bourke Street on a Saturday Night, Victorian Arts Centre Publication for an exhibition of the same name at the Performing Arts Museum, Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne Australia, ISBN 07241 5195 8

Thacker, Thom, and Keenen, Sheila (adapt.) 1996, Movies (orig. Toulet, Emmanuel, 1995, Secrets du Cinéma, Editions Gallimard Jeunesse) Scholastic Inc., New York, USA, ISBN 0 590 89655 5

Williams, Christopher (Ed.), 1996, Cinema The Beginnings and the Future: Essays Marking the Centenary of the First Film Show Projected to a Paying Audience in Britain, University of Westmister Press, London, UK ISBN 1 85919 007 3

Wyver, John, 1989, The Moving Image: An International History of Film, Television and Video, Basil Blackwell Inc., UK, ISBN 0 631 16821 4

Films dealing with the Origins and History of the Motion Picture

The Life of Charles Pathe´, 1994, Colour, Directed by Jaques Rouffio and starring Didier Bezace as Charles Pathe´

The Magic Box, 1951, Colour, Directed by John Boulting and starring Robert Donat as William Friese-Greene

The Missing Reel, 1989, Colour, Directed by Christopher Rawlence and starring John Hart Dyke as Augustin Le Prince

Television

Abramson, Albert, 1955, Electronic Motion Pictures, UC Berleley, California, USA, Reprint 1974, The Arno Press series History of Broadcasting Radio to Television, Arno Press Inc., USA, ISBN 0 405 06031 9

Abramson, Albert, 1987, The History of Television, 1880 to 1941, McFarland, Jefferson, NC, USA, ISBN 0 89950 284 9

Baird, Margaret, 1973, Baird of Television, Haum, Cape Town, S.Africa, ISBN 0 79860 052 7

Baker, W. J., 1960, The Young Man's Guide to Television, Hamish Hamilton, London, UK.

Barton-Chapple H. J., 1933, Television for the Amateur Constructor, Pitman, London, UK.

Bergreen, Laurence, Look Now, Pay Later: The Rise Of Network Broadcasting Library Of Congress Cat. Number 80-84912

Bridgewater, T. H., 1982, A. A. Campbell Swinton, Royal Television Society Monograph 1, Royal Television Society, London, UK.

Burns, R.W., 1986, British Television: The Formative Years, IEE History of Technology, Ser.7, Peter Peregrinus, London

Collins, A., Frederick, 1932, Experimental Television: How to Make A Complete Home Television Transmitter and Reciever, Lothrop, Boston, USA, Reprint 1991, Lindsay Publications, Bradley, Illinois, USA, ISBN 1 55918 079 X

Collins, Philip, (with photography by Garry Brod), 1997, The Golden Age of Televisions, General Publishing Group, California, USA, ISBN 1 57544 019 9

De Forest, Lee, 1945, Television: Today and Tomorrow, Hutchinson's Scientific & Technical Publications, London, UK

Dinsdale, Alfred, 1932, First Principles of Television, Chapman & Hall, London, UK., Reprint 1971, The Arno Press series History of Broadcasting Radio to Television, Arno Press Inc., USA, ISBN 0 405 03562 4

Dunlap Jr. Orrin Elmer, 1932, The Outlook for Television, Harper & Rowe Publishers, Reprint 1971, The Arno Press series History of Broadcasting Radio to Television, Arno Press Inc., USA, ISBN 0 405 03564 0

Everson, George, 1949, The Story of Television: The Life of Philo T. Farnsworth, W.W. Norton & Co. Inc. NY., USA., Arno Pr; ISBN: 0 405 06042 4

Exwood, Maurice, 1976, John Logie Baird: 50 Years of Television, The Institute of Electronic and Radio Engineers, London, UK., ISBN 0 903748 29 0

Farnsworth, Elma G., 1990, Distant Vision: Romance and Discovery on an Invisible Frontier, Pemberley Kent Publishers, Salt Lake City, USA, ISBN 0 9623276 0 3

Fielding, Raymond, (Ed.), 1967, (1983 pbk.), A Technological History of Motion Pictures and Television: An Anthology from the pages of the Journal of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, University of California (Berkeley) Press, ISBN 0 520 05064 9

Fisher, David E., and Fisher, Marshall Jon, 1996, Tube: The Invention of Television, Counterpoint, Washington, D.C., USA, ISBN 1 88717 817 1 (alk. paper)

Friedman, Jeffrey (Ed.), 1991, Milestones in Motion Picture and Television Technology: The SMPTE 75th Anniversary Collection 1916 - 1991, SMPTE, ISBN 0 940690 19 5

Gano, Lila, 1990, Television: Electronic Pictures, Encyclopedia of Discovery and Invention, Lucent Books, San Diego, Cal. USA, ISBN 1 56006 202 9

Geddes, Keith, 1972, Broadcasting in Britain: 1922 - 1972, A Science Museum, London, Booklet, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, UK, SBN 11 290155 7

Geddes, Keith and Bussey, Gordon, 1986, Television: The First Fifty Years, Philips Electronics and the NMPFT, ISBN 0 948489 05 7

Hallett, Michael, c.1978, John Logie Baird and Television Priory Press, ISBN 0 85078 228 7

Herbert, Ray, 1996, Seeing by Wireless: The Story of Baird Television, published by the author, 24 Norfolk Crescent, Sanderstead, South Croydon CR2 8BN, UK, Tel: 0181 657 1126 (Details as of 8/97: Reprint due 1998 some copies first ed. available for five (5) pounds sterling [cash requested] incl. air mail postage)

Horton, Derek, 1951, Television's Story and Challenge, George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., Dewey 621.388

Hutchinson, Geoffrey, no published date, Baird: The The Pioneer of Television: The Story of John Logie Baird 1888-1946, published by the author, UK, ISBN 0 9510651 3 0

Hylander, C., 1934, date?, American Inventors, Reprint 1964, Jenkins, Charles Francis

Inglis, Andrew F., date, Behind the Tube: A History of Broadcasting Technology and Business ISBN 0 24080 043 5

Jenkins, C., Francis, 1925, Vision by Radio: Radio Photographs, Radio Photograms, Jenkins Laboratories, Washington DC., USA, Reprint 1989, Lindsay Publications, Bradlley, Illinois, USA, ISBN 1 55918 020 X

Kesterton, Michael, 1991, The Birth of The Box

Lohr, Lennox R., 1940, Television Broadcasting: Production, Economics, Technique, McGraw Hill Book Co., NY, USA

MacDonnell, Kevin, 1972, Eadweard Muybridge: The Man Who Invented the Moving Picture, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, USA Lib. of Congress Card No: 72 1800

McArthur, Tom and Peter Waddell, 1986, The Secret Life of John Logie Baird, Century Hutchinson, London, UK ISBN 0 09158 720 4

McArthur, Tom and Peter Waddell, 1990, Vision Warrior, Scottish Falcon Books, The Orkney Press, Scotland, UK., 0 907618 04 9

Moseley, Sydney Alexander and Barton-Chapple H. J., 1930, Television

Moseley, Sydney Alexander and Barton-Chapple H. J., 1934, Television: Today and Tomorrow (with a Foreword by John Logie Baird), Pitman, London, UK

Moseley, Sydney Alexander and McKay, Herbert, 1936, Television: A Guide for the Amateur, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK

Moseley, Sydney Alexander, 1952, John Baird: The Romance and Tragedy of the Pioneer of Television, Odhams Press, Long Acre, London, UK

Norman, Bruce, 1984, Here's Looking at You: The Story of British Television 1908-1939, BBC and The Royal Television Society, London, UK., ASIN: 0 5632 0102 9

Pitt, Doug, 1995, 1996, Basic NBTV Techniques, Reprint from the Narrow Band Television Association Magazine. Available from NBTV Association.

Riehecky, Janet, 1996, Television, from the series 'Inventors & Inventions', Benchmark Books, New York, USA, ISBN 0 7614 0045 1

Ritchie, Michael, 1994, Please Stand By: A Prehistory of Television, The Overlook Press, Woodstock, NY, USA, ISBN 0 87951 615 1

Rowland, John, 1966, The Television Man, The Story of John Logie Baird, Lutterworth Press, London, UK.,

Ross, Gordon, 1961, Television Jubilee: The Story of Twenty-Five Years of BBC Television, W.H. Allen, London, UK.

Scroggie, M.G., 1935, Television, Blackie and Son, London, UK.

Shiers, George (Ed.), Technical Development of Television, Reprint 1977, articles published between 1911-1970, Arno Press Inc., NY., USA, ISBN 0 405 07761 0

Singleton, T., (Ed.), 1988, Sermons, Soap and Television, Royal Television Society, London, UK., ISBN 1 871527 00 7 (2nd and expanded edition incorporating an introduction by Dr. Malcolm Baird plus John Logie Baird's original memoirs, 1990, ISBN 1 871527 20 1)

Smith, Anthony and Patterson, Richard (Eds.), 1995, Television: An International History, OUP, London, UK., ISBN: 0198742495

Swift, John, 1950, Adventure in Vision, John Lehmann, London, UK.

Tiltman, Ronald Frank, 1933, Baird of Television: The Life Story of John Logie Baird, Seeley Service & Co., Ltd., London, UK., Reprint 1974, The Arno Press series History of Broadcasting Radio to Television, Arno Press Inc., NY., USA, ISBN 0 405 06061 0

Udelson, Joseph H., 1982, The Great Television Race: A History of the American Television Industry 1925 - 1941, University of Alabama Press, Al., USA, ISBN 0 8173 0082 1

Yancer, Peter F., 1987, The Mechanics of Television: The Story of Mechanical Television, Published by Peter Yancer, St Louis, Miss. USA, Lib. Congress Card No: 86 91699

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