“Le cinema e un’invenzione senza avvenire.”
(The cinema is an invention without a future.)
—Louis Lumière
I want to thank a number of individuals who are as much a part of this book as the paper and ink.
The complementary artist Claire McGrane and Steve Parsons of Framestore CFC; Andrew Francis (also responsible for many of the beautiful images throughout this book), Simon Cross, Luke Rainey, Gavin Burridge, and Peter Lynch; Aviv Yaron, Kevin Wheatley, Courtney Vanderslice, Mitch Mitchell, Peter Robertshaw, and Colin Brown of Cinesite Europe; Stuart Fyvie of Lipsync Post; Neil Robinson of Filmlight; and Aaron James of NBC News Universal London: thanks for teaching me this stuff in the first place.
Howard Lukk of Walt Disney Studios; Walt Ordway of the DCI; Dave Bancroft of Thomson; Paul Debevec, Greg Ward, Flemming Jetmar, many members of the Telecine Internet Group (tig.colorist.org); and the numerous manufacturers and PR agents: thanks for answering a multitude of questions for me.
And finally, to my friends and family for moral support, to Joanne Tracy, Lothlorien Homet, Becky Golden-Harrell, Angelina Ward, Marie Hooper, and the others at Focal Press, without whose efforts you would just be holding a stack of blank paper right now.