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A Cultural History of 20th Century‘s Media Technology
  Since 1994 we have published ten volumes so far  on the cultural history of media and film technology. You may get an inpression from our sales pages at amazon.de  Don't hesitate the German taste and smell, it will NOT bite you and
you may come back into save English speaking harbours anytime... You can even use your existing amazon.com or amazon.co.uk account to buy our book titles at amazon.de.  All previous volumes and all back issues are still available as archive copies.  Please check with us if you‘re interested. All contributed articles are published in their original language. Hence, most of our book titles contain English articles, too.   Our latest book releases   Siegfried Zielinski

Zur Geschichte des Videorecorders On the history of the video recorder  A German classic in media studies from 1985. All new edition 2010.  Volume 10.2010 of the book series "Weltwunder der Kinematographie — Beiträge zu einer Kulturgeschichte der Film- und Medientechnik",  edited by Joachim Polzer; 544 pages ISBN 3-934535-29-1, ISBN-13 978-3-934535-29-9 Our catalogue page at amazon.de book info sheet (e-flyer) at .pdf file  

On the history of Magnetic Tape Technology:  Friedrich Engel • Gerhard Kuper • Frank Bell • Wulf Münzner  ZEITSCHICHTEN / Time Layers: Magnetic Tape Technology as a cultural carrier: Biographies of Inventors and their Inventions 
SECOND EDITION 2010  A chronology of Magnetic Tape Technology and its use in broadcast, television, music, film and video production 
Volume 9/2.2010 of the book series "Weltwunder der Kinematographie — Beiträge zu einer Kulturgeschichte der Film- und Medientechnik",  edited by Joachim Polzer. (first edition 2007) ISBN 3-934535-28-3, ISBN-13 978-3-934535-28-2 706 pages, more than 800 illustrations/photos/tables, hard cover, 3.896 annotations (end notes), large size book format A 4, about 5 pounds heavy, published by Polzer, Potsdam Our catalogue page at amazon.de Press info text as .pdf file book info sheet (e-flyer) as .pdf file TOC of Second Edition as .pdf file brief biographies of the four authors as .pdf file book sample 1 as .pdf file book sample 2 as .pdf file   A brochure on a related topic:  • Special Issue 2004 (10th anniversary):  Eduard Schüller and his magnetophones - Telefunken in Wedel (1955 - 1964) by Gerhard Kuper, on the inventor of the audio tape recording (magnetophone) machine and AEG-Telefunken's German manufacturing site in the city of Wedel. 
Previous Volumes / Back Issues:
A SHORT HISTORY  OF CINEMA FILM POST-PRODUCTION  On the history of the film laboratory:  written by Paul Read, in English, published as 90 pages article (with a lot of illustrations) as part of Volume 8.2006, on motion picture film laboratory history Read more on this book title at our amazon.de sales page
• Volume 7.2003: The History of the Film Editing Machines  (Filmschnitt und Schneidetisch), 248 pages, by Eberhard Nuffer, If you are interested in classical film editing techniques and their underlaying equipment history, this is a book for you. 248 pages.  • Volume 6.2002: The Rise and Fall of Talking Movies - The Future of Cinema: 24p?DVD-Video supplement optional, contains several English articles, two by Walter Murch on the future of cinema, 512 pages, hardcover.  • Volume 5.1999: The Agfacolor Story & Early Digital Cinema Sound includes also the history of digitral cinema sound, written in English by Ute Frindik.  208 pages, hardcover.  • Volume 4.1997: VistaVision - the whole story,  the VistaVision story wirtten in English by Christen Yasko.  • Volume 3.1996: SOUND - of the Cinema  • Volume 2.1995: This is Cinerama  • Volume 1.1994: The 70-mm-gauge and its history 
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