Barry Salt
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Barry Salt is an Australian film historian.
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 Ph.D in theoretical physics
and taught the subject at Sir John Cass College in London in the late 1960s. Throughout the 1970s, he taught filmmaking at the Royal College of Art
, Goldsmith's College, and the Slade School. 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 1993. 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, who is also a computer programmer, developed the Cinemetrics movie measurement and study tool database program.
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 Ph.D in theoretical physics
Theoretical physics
Theoretical physics is a branch of physics which employs mathematical models and abstractions of physics to rationalize, explain and predict natural phenomena...
and taught the subject at Sir John Cass College in London in the late 1960s. Throughout the 1970s, he taught filmmaking at the Royal College of Art
Royal College of Art
The Royal College of Art is an art school located in London, United Kingdom. It is the world’s only wholly postgraduate university of art and design, offering the degrees of Master of Arts , Master of Philosophy and Doctor of Philosophy...
, Goldsmith's College, and the Slade School. Salt became a course director at the London Film School
London Film School
The London Film School is a private film school in London and is situated in a converted brewery in Covent Garden, London, close to a hub of the UK film industry based in Soho. The LFS was founded in 1956 by Bob Dunbar as The London School of Film Technique...
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 1993. 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, who is also a computer programmer, developed the Cinemetrics movie measurement and study tool database program.