From: jeanne liotta (email suppressed)
Date: Sat Mar 20 2004 - 10:47:17 PST
Agreed--I love loopy Lipton and refer to it regularly as well. He
gave me the courage to communicate with labs when I was too afraid
I'd look stupid.
Basically I have a whole shelf of tech books and each one seems good
for something different. I encourage students to the new
Pincus/Ascher for the digital reasons even though I personally find
it's structure confusing.
>
>Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 08:57:23 -0600
>From: Sam Wells <email suppressed>
>Subject: Re: query: 1960s era filmmaking textbooks
>
>He is however technically accurate in all respects. (There's a total of
>one typo in the first ed.)
>A few of his subjective opinions I might not agree with (nor does it
>matter now if Dupont resembled Kodak B&W etc !).
>It still sits on my shelf and I still refer to it from time to time.
>
>-Sam
>
>> I would point out that Lipton not only told people what to do, but
>> created a
>> palpable enthusiasm for making films: the ethos was a true hippie
>> do-it-yourself stance, and it was published not by a technical press
>> but a
>> counter-culture one. It was widely available in counter culture
>> bookstores.
>> With Lipton and Pincus (both inexpensive paperbacks) you were good to
>> go to
>> teach yourself filmmaking.
>
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