Ephraim Katz directed many documentaries, educational and industrial films, but his greatest contribution to cinema was his single volume The Film Encyclopedia (first published in 1979). One of the most comprehensive critical and historical works on film in print, he wrote the first volume alone. The Film Encyclopedia contains biographical and critical information about many major and minor figures in films including actors, directors, producers, and production people. It also chronicles the history of cinema around the world and contains definitions and descriptions of technical processes and film terminology. Katz studied law and economics at Hebrew University, Jerusalem. He later studied political science at Hunter College, New York and cinema at New York University. In 1960, he and Quentin Reynolds penned Minister of Death, a chronicle of the search for Adolf Eichmann, a notorious Nazi war criminal.
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