Barry Salt (born 15 December 1933 in
Melbourne
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, Australia) is an Australian film historian.
Biography
Salt was a ballet dancer
[ and member of the Ballet Guild Company of Melbourne in 1955 and 1956, the Western Theatre Ballet of London in 1957, and the Ballet Minerva of London in 1966.
Salt holds a PhD in ]theoretical physics
Theoretical physics is a branch of physics that employs mathematical models and abstractions of physical objects and systems to rationalize, explain and predict natural phenomena. This is in contrast to experimental physics, which uses experim ...
[ and taught the subject at ]Sir John Cass College
London Guildhall University was a university in the United Kingdom from 1992 to 2002, established when the City of London Polytechnic was awarded university status. On 1 August 2002, it merged with the University of North London to form Londo ...
in London in the late 1960s. Throughout the 1970s, he taught filmmaking at the Royal College of Art
The Royal College of Art (RCA) is a public research university in London, United Kingdom, with campuses in South Kensington, Battersea and White City. It is the only entirely postgraduate art and design university in the United Kingdom. It o ...
,[ ]Goldsmiths College
Goldsmiths, University of London, officially the Goldsmiths' College, is a constituent research university of the University of London in England. It was originally founded in 1891 as The Goldsmiths' Technical and Recreative Institute by the Wo ...
, and the Slade School
The UCL Slade School of Fine Art (informally The Slade) is the art school of University College London (UCL) and is based in London, England. It has been ranked as the UK's top art and design educational institution. The school is organised as ...
.[ Salt became a course director at the London Film School in 1988, a position he still holds.
Salt worked throughout the late 1960s and 1970s as a freelance lighting cameraman][ and has directed six documentaries, but is most noted for having authored the book ''Film Style and Technology: History & Analysis'', an exhaustively researched evaluation of the development of technical filmmaking throughout the 20th century, published in 1983. In 2006, he published ''Moving into Pictures: More on Film History, Style, and Analysis'', a collection of essays which also includes several autobiographical sections.
Salt is a regular contributor to '' Cinemetrics'', the movie measurement database and study tool program created by Yuri Tsivian and Gunars Civjans in 2005.
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External links
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Barry Salt's database at "Cinemetrics"Article by Salt at Cinemetrics
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Living people
1933 births
Academics from Melbourne
Australian film historians