Fine construction of the film. Theory and practice of operator skills

This publication is a reprint of the book by V.S. Nilsen, written in 1936 by a talented movie operator and teacher, head of the Department of Cinema Operator VGIK. The study of the creative problems of operator art, the issues of building a film camera, the elements of its composition, the light and tonality of the image, the visual interpretation of the film, creative methods and style have become a desktop textbook on operator skills and to the present has not lost its relevance. Dedicated to S.M. Eisenstein, translated in the USA and England, the book of the master, executed in 1938, disappeared from the history of Russian cinema for a long time, again returns to his reader. The book is printed according to original texts published by the Publishing House "Film Operating" in 1936