Cover: U.S. Film History
Features: Lost Films by Herman G. Weinberg
Studying and Preserving Films at MOMA by Lilian Gerard
Eadweard Muybridge by Harlan Hamilton, with bibliography
H. d’Abbadie d’Arrast by Herman G. Weinberg
Harold Lloyd reflects on his career
Guides for student film production by Thomas J. Genelli
Warrendale and Titicut Follies by Dr. Paul Bradlow
Television station breaks by Richard J. Meyer
Socialist children’s television by Rose Forman
Introduction to Lewis Jacobs’s Rise of the American Film by Martin S. Dworkin
Festivals: Bergamo Film Festival by Frank Nulf
Books: The Disney Version – The Life, Times, Art and Commerce of Walt Disney by Richard Schickel, reviewed by Cecille Starr; Valentino by Irving Shulman, reviewed by Robert Steele; Keaton by Rudi Blesh, All Talking! All Singing! All Dancing! – A Pictorial History of the Movie Musical by John Springer, Tower of Babel – Speculations on the Cinema by Eric Rhode, Horror! by Drake Douglas, and An Illustrated History of the Horror Film by Carlos Clarens, reviewed by William K. Everson; Sacha Guitry, the Last Boulevardier by James Harding, Marlene Dietrich by John Kobal, Silent Star by Colleen Moore, With Eisenstein in Hollywood – A Chapter of Autobiography by Ivor Montagu, Seventy Years of Cinema by Peter Cowie, and Esthetique et Psychologie du Cinéma by Jean Mitry, reviewed by Herman G. Weinberg; What is Cinema? by André Bazin, reviewed by J. Dudley Andrew; The Lubitsch Touch – A Critical Study of the Great Film Director by Herman G. Weinberg, reviewed by Frank Manchel; Due to Circumstances Beyond Our Control by Fred W. Friendly, reviewed by Richard J. Meyer