Brian R  Pritchard - Motion Picture and Film Archive Consultant

Early Laboratory Work

Some chapters of books from the early days

 

'Motion Picture Photography For The Amateur' -  by Herbert C McKay published in 1924 by Falk Publishing

 

Chapter IX 'Developing and Printing'

MOVING PICTURES - How they are Made and Worked' by Frederick A Talbot - Revised Edition published in 1912 by William Heinemann

Chapter VIII - Developing and Printing the Pictures

'MOTION PICTURE PHOTOGRAPHY' by Carl Louis Gregory F.R.P.S. - Edited by Herbert McKay, A.R.P.S. - published by Falk Publishing Co Inc 1927

Chapter IX - Development of the Negative

Chapter X Making Motipn Picture Positives

Click the links above for the PDF Files.

 A full list of professional formulae for developers, fixing bath, tinting, toning and so forth, as well as detailed theoretical discussion of the technique of cinematography can be found in the “CONDENSED COURSE IN MOTION PICTURE PHOTOGRAPHY,” published by the Falk Publishing Co., N. Y.