Voices of Film Experience: 1894 To the Present

by Jay Leyda

In quotations ranging from offhand remarks to formal interviews and articles, past and present filmmakers review their work, the problems encountered and solved, and the complexities of cinematic art

544 pages, Hardcover

First published August 1, 1981

About the author

Jay Leyda was an American avant-garde filmmaker and film historian, noted for his work on U.S, Soviet and Chinese Cinema. His The Melville Log (1951) was a day to day compilation of documents which he had painstakingly collected on the life of Herman Melville. He was a member of the Workers Film and Photo League in the early 1930s. He participated in the filming of Sergei Eisenstein's lost film Bezhin Meadow (1935–37).[1] In the 1940s he translated Eisenstein's writings.
He was awarded the Eastman Kodak Gold Medal Award in 1984.