{{short description|Australian film historian (born 1933)}} {{Multiple issues| {{BLP one source|date=June 2011}} {{BLP primary sources|date=December 2011}} }} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2021}} {{Use Australian English|date=June 2011}} '''Barry Salt''' (born 15 December 1933 in Melbourne, Australia) is an Australian film historian.<ref name=lfs_bio>{{cite web |url=http://www.lfs.org.uk/50th/archives/60s-archive/barry_salt.php |title=Dr. Barry Salt |work=London Film School archives |access-date=29 May 2011}}</ref>
==Biography== Salt was a ballet dancer<ref name=lfs_bio/> 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<ref name=lfs_bio/> 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,<ref name=lfs_bio/> Goldsmiths College, and the Slade School.<ref name=lfs_bio/> 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<ref name=lfs_bio/> 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.
==Publications== *{{cite book |title=Film Style and Technology: History and Analysis |last=Salt |first=Barry |year=2009 |publisher=Starword |edition=3 |isbn=978-0-9509066-5-2 }} *{{cite book |title=Moving into Pictures |last=Salt |first=Barry |year=2006 |publisher=Starword |isbn=978-0-9509066-4-5 }} *{{cite web |url=http://old.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/feature/49524 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120803005515/http://old.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/feature/49524 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-08-03 |title=A brief history of cinematography |author=Barry Salt |date=April 2009 |work=Sight & Sound |publisher=British Film Institute|access-date=29 May 2011}}
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==Further reading== *{{cite journal |year=2008 |title=What Does the Statistical Style Analysis of Film Involve? A Review of ''Moving into Pictures'' |journal=Literary and Linguistic Computing |volume=23 |issue=2 |pages=219–230 |publisher=Oxford University Press |doi= 10.1093/llc/fqm046}}
==External links== *{{IMDb name |0759016}} *[http://www.cinemetrics.lv/ Barry Salt's database at "Cinemetrics"] *[http://www.cinemetrics.lv/salt.php Article by Salt at Cinemetrics] *[http://www.cinemetrics.lv/distrib.html Chapter from ''Moving into Pictures'' at Cinemetrics]
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