Book frontispiece of folk etymology, from 'frontispice' to 'frontispiece' ('front' + 'piece'). Book frontispiece A frontispiece in books is a decorative or informative illustration facing a book's title page—on the left-hand, or verso, page opposite the right-hand, or recto, page. While some books depict thematic elements, other books feature the author's portrait as the frontispiece. In medieval illuminated manuscripts, a presentation miniature showing the book or text being presented (by whom and to whom varies) was often used as a frontispiece. The word comes from the French "frontispice", or the late Latin "frontispicium", from the Latin "frons" ('forehead') and "specere" ('to look
Dark Side of the Rainbow would have been highly impractical. Roeper also noted the technical issue of the roughly 43-minute "Dark Side of the Moon" being short compared to the 101-minute "The Wizard of Oz". In the book "", Nick Mason noted that the band was becoming proficient at creating movie soundtracks by the time they started the recording of "The Dark Side of the Moon", and that they even interrupted their work on the album so they could score yet another film. He explained the technical process that Pink Floyd used to score movies when he wrote about the recording of the 1972 "Obscured