I. Aims and attitudes. Directors speak / Lindsay Anderson ... [et al.]. II. The nature of film expression. The raw material / Lewis Jacobs. III. The plastic elements. The meaningful image / Lewis Jacobs The ambiguity of the photographic image / Arthur Goldsmith On image and word / Nicola Chiaromonte The subjective camera / Herbert A. Lightman Composition of the moving image / Gregg Toland Movement : real and cinematic / Lewis Jacobs Movement in movies / Ezra Goodman Thoughts on movement / Hilary Harris Modern uses of the moving camera / Stanley J. Solomon Change of camera viewpoint / Irving Pichel The expression of time and space / Lewis Jacobs The faces of time / Robert Gessner Tempo and tension / Maya Deren Time and space / John Howard Lawson Rhythm / Ivor Montagu
(Cont'd) The mobility of color / Lewis Jacobs
Color and color films / Carl Dreyer
One path to color / Sergei Eisenstein
Coming to terms with color / William Johnson
Sound as speech, noise, music / Lewis Jacobs
The acoustic world / Bela Belazs
Treatment of sound in The city / Henwar Rodakiewicz
Music in the movies / Kurt Weill. IV. The plastic structure. Dynamic composition / Alexander Bakshy
The sense of form in cinema / Arthur Lennig
The other direction / Jonas Mekas.
