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William T. Stewart, Arthur F. McClure, and Ken D. Jones. International Film Necrology. Boston: Garland, 1980. 328 pp. $35. Everything you ever wanted to know (and more) about the birth and death dates of thousands of film actors, directors, writers, cinematographers and composers who worked in film from 1900 through early 1980. This work's significance to the researcher is that, wherever possible, the original historical records were checked to confirm the dates and places in question. For research libraries, too long required to refer scholars to unreliable sources, this volume should be an important acquisition. FILM & HISTORY NEWS HFC PLANS FOR LOS ANGELES The Historians Film Committee will be co-sponsoring a session at the 1981 AHA meeting next December in Los Angeles. The session, focusing on resources for film history research, will feature presentations by John O'Connor and Thomas Cripps and comments by archivists from major film/television related collections. Also at Los Angeles, the HFC will be offering a screening of a new television production on TV news coverage of the Vitenam War made by Peter C. Rollins and David Culbert. Both producers will be on hand to discuss their work entitled Television's Vietnam. SPECIAL ISSUE COMING THIS FALL The Fall 1981 issue of Film & History will feature several articles on film and the history of technology. This special issue is stimulated by the response to a session on the same theme at the 1980 meeting of the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) at Toronto. 45 ...