Moving image technology: from zoetrope to digital

This timely new study provides a thorough grounding in the history and theory of moving image, film, video, sound recording and allien technologies.The volume explains scientific and technical concepts clearly and in a way that can be taken on board by non-scientists. The book also integrates a discussion of traditional, filmbased technologies with the impact of emerging new media technologies such as digital video, e-cinema and the Internet.