Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-328).

I. Aims and attitudes. Directors speak / Lindsay Anderson [and others]. II. The nature of film expression. The raw material / Lewis Jacobs. III. The plastic elements. The meaningful image / Lewis Jacobs -- The ambiguity of the photographic image / Arthur Goldsmith -- On image and word / Nicola Chiaromonte -- The subjective camera / Herbert A. Lightman -- Composition of the moving image / Gregg Toland -- Movement : real and cinematic / Lewis Jacobs -- Movement in movies / Ezra Goodman -- Thoughts on movement / Hilary Harris -- Modern uses of the moving camera / Stanley J. Solomon -- Change of camera viewpoint / Irving Pichel -- The expression of time and space / Lewis Jacobs -- The faces of time / Robert Gessner -- Tempo and tension / Maya Deren -- Time and space / John Howard Lawson -- Rhythm / Ivor Montagu.

(Cont'd) The mobility of color / Lewis Jacobs -- Color and color films / Carl Dreyer -- One path to color / Sergei Eisenstein -- Coming to terms with color / William Johnson -- Sound as speech, noise, music / Lewis Jacobs -- The acoustic world / Bela Belazs -- Treatment of sound in The city / Henwar Rodakiewicz -- Music in the movies / Kurt Weill. IV. The plastic structure. Dynamic composition / Alexander Bakshy -- The sense of form in cinema / Arthur Lennig -- The other direction / Jonas Mekas.