"This book will be a must-have reference for everyone involved in non-professional filmmaking. Kattelle has an investigative reporter’s mind, a film technology expert’s knowledge and a humanist’s concerns. He has spent fifteen years collecting and organizing first-hand accounts of the pain and excitement of the men and women who designed the stuff to make film accessible to non-professionals. He gives us 414 pages of text, drawings, photographs, cross-references and incredible appendices."