Abstract
THE accuracy of aim, clarity of conception, and exactness of expression which characterize Mr. Elliott's work are well illustrated in its title. His book is not one on “Sound Recording on Film”, with detailed description of the physics and chemistry of the sound track and the related apparatus. It is a shrewd and stimulating discussion of the art of that highly skilled, imaginative, ingenious, agile and patient collaborator in film-making who bears the regrettable though comprehensible title of “recordist”. A very few inexactitudes and obscurities in the brief references to acoustic physics are quite unimportant in a book full of wisdom, common sense and sound artistic judgment.
Sound-Recording for Films:
a Review of Modern Methods. By W. F. Elliott. Pp. xi + 134 + 12 plates. (London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, Ltd., 1937.) 10s. 6d. net.
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Sound-Recording for Films. Nature 141, 226 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141226c0
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