This educational CD-ROM describes the art and science of motion picture film including the basics of image capture, processing, and sensitometry. The course is broken into four key components and a glossary of terms, each section ends with a self-check exercise. Topics covered include:

What is Film?

• Similarities between still and motion imaging.
• The three common types of film backing (antihalation, REMJET, dyed-film base), the imaging layers in color film, the function of the ultraviolet absorbing layer and the purpose of a film overcoat.

How Film Works

• How black-and-white film is exposed and processed.
• How color film is exposed and processed.
• Describe how film compensates for the imperfection in dyes.
• How light forms a latent image on silver halide crystals.
• Masking by colored couplers

Sensitometry

• Basic graph principles.
• The parts of the characteristic curve.
• Spectral sensitivity curves and spectral-dye-density curves.
• The relationship between grain size and film speed.

Motion Picture Film

• Format sizes of motion picture film.
• Characteristics that differentiate motion picture film from still photography.
• Motion picture aspect ratios.
• Motion picture film as it relates to length, processing, and projection.

CD-ROM System Requirements

Windows

• 486/66 or higher processor, including Intel Pentium processor
• Windows 3.1, 95, 98, 2000, Me, XP, or Windows NT 4 or later
• 16 MB RAM required
• CD-ROM 4X or higher
• Minimum 24-bit color display
• 800 X 600 screen resolution

Macintosh

• Power Macintosh (G3 or higher)
• MacOS 8.1, 8.5, 8.6, 9.x or OS X (classic mode only)
• CD-ROM 4X or higher
• Minimum 24-bit color display
• 800 X 600 screen resolution