PKEFACB.

This book, as its name implies, is intended as a

text-book or book of reference in the several
branches of the motion-picture art, from the per-
foration of the film through the operations of
photographing, developing, printing, and project-
ing these pictures, alone and in connection with
lantern projection of still pictures.
The work is conscientiously written, embodies
the experience of the writers covering the entire
period since the adoption of flexible film as a pic-
ture carrier, and also the details of interest picked
up all over the world in the many trips which have
been made in collecting pictures for the Burton
Holmes " Travelogues."
It is believed to be as complete as the art at
present permits, containing, as it does, the best-
known practice in all its branches by the most skil-

ful workers in the art everywhere, and is published

in the hope thatit may hasten a still further im-

provement in the quality of the pictures, and the

better appreciation of the great value of these
work and the recording of
pictures in scientific
national and historical events in a farmore nat-
ural and accurate manner than posed still pictures
permit.