CINEMATOGRAPHICA

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Links:

• The Movie Machine Society
• Michael Rogge's cine collection, part 1
• Michael Rogge's cine collection, part 2
• SMALL MOVIES with Paillard Bolex history, 8/16mm processing, projection lamp lamp identification and much more
• Smallformat S8/16 magazine has very informative articles. The fifth issue appeared in December 2008, but alas, it will be their final issue for lack of subscribers!
• Scott E. Norwood supplies lots of information on sizes and what not.
• BJ's collection with copies of some manuals
• Bill Douglas Centre for the history of Cinema etc.
• View Hyker LaRiviere's Guinness World Record movie camera collection
• Guiness largest collection of film projectors
• Ted Barnett's site with wonderful images of projectors
• Interested in animation or Bolex (conversion to super 16)? Visit Animato's site.
• Vintage Film Home Page (UK)
• PPT - The Projected Picture Trust (UK) aiming at restoring and preserving old cinema projectors
• W.J.'s list of (some) camera mounts
• Sam Dodge's beautiful historic cameras
• Wikipedia Film pages

History:

• One Hundred years of Film Sizes
• Who's who of Victorian Cinema
• Edison Motion Pictures
• La Villa Lumière. History of the Lumières
• History of sub-35mm film formats
• Birt Acres 1854 to 1918 - Film Pioneer.
• Pioneers of early cinema: Birt Acres
• Charles Urban, and other Motion Picture pioneers
• The inventors in cinema
• The Bill Douglas Centre for the History of the Cinema...
• Library of Congress: Early motion pictures 1897-1916
• Photographic Historical Society, Rochester, N.Y.
• Pre-cinema and Early film publications "The Projectionbox"
• The mechanics of Moving Images
• The Silent Film Bookshelf
• The history of color, sound and widescreen motion pictures
• Film Sound history
• Buckey's film history, preservation, conservation and resources pages
• EarlyCinema.com
• The history of the discovery of cinematography

Museums:

• National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, Bradford.UK
• Museum of the Moving Image, London
• The British Film Institute, London
• Smithonian Institution: Precinema and early cinema ads
• American Film Institute
• American Museum of the Moving Image, New York
• George Eastman House
• The American WideScreen Museum
• Museum of Motion Picture History Inc., Tampa, FL, USA
• Musée des Arts et Métiers, Paris
• Cinémathèque Française
• Kamera Daten Bank Deutsche Museen
• Deutsches Filmmuseum, Frankfurt, Germany
• Filmmuseum Potsdam
• Kino Museum Vollbütel
• Austrian Film Museum, Vienne
• EYE Film Instituut Nederland/Netherlands Film Museum
• Museum v. Beeld en Geluid, Hilversum
• Magic Lantern Castle Museum, San Antonio, Texas

Auctions/markets:

• Westlicht Photographica Auktion, Vienna, Austria.
• Breker Auktion Team, Köln, Germany. Their next auction will be held on 2nd November 2023.
• Galerie de Chartres, France. Their next Photographica auction will be held on 14th October 2023.
• eBay auctions

Clips of my cinematographica collection

Precinema/Magic Lanterns:

• The Magic Lantern Society, Great Britain
• The American Magic-Lantern Theater
• Magic Lantern collection 'De Luikerwaal', Huizen, the Netherlands. Important collectors' lists.
• Toverlantaarn museum, Heiloo, Netherlands
• Toverlantaarn.eu, Alkmaar, the Netherlands.
• Herbert Lukaszewski's extensive optical toys site.
• La Collezione Minicine Zotti. Un museo di magiche Visioni

WIDESCREEN

• The American WideScreen Museum (All other links are dead)

Collecting/Filming in 9,5mm:

• Cinerdistan. Site dedicated to 9,5 - 17,5 - 28mm, as well as the traditional gauges
• Pathex.com, 9,5mm Club USA, lots of information as well as a number of catalogues of Pathé cassettes
• Grahame Newnham's List of books on 9,5mm
• Grahame Newnham's 9,5mm Equipment Catalogue (non-Pathescope)
• Microscope on Pathéscope 9,5mm printed films (Gerald McKee)
• List of Felix the Cat films in 9,5mm
• 9,5 groups around the world (by Grahame Newnham)
• Ciné-Club 9,5mm France
• Fondation Jerome Seydoux -Pathé >
• Yahoo group: Les amateurs de pathe-baby
• Pathéscope 9,5mm Homepage (UK)
• The Nine - Five Page of Grahame Newnham
• Cine 9,5 Nederland
• 9,5mm forum

Filming in (super)8 or 16mm:

• Jürgen Lossau's Super 8 Web Portal
• Super 8 TV magazine
• Anssi Puistot's list with almost 900 super 8 cameras
• The Super 8mm Camera guide
• Filmshooting.com.The latest news about (8mm) film stocks etc.
• Eclair ACL Discussion and Support List
• Reel Exchange, with buy and sell section
• American Society of Cinematographers
• Movie Maker magazine
• The art of film splicing
• Kahl German film supply and processing
• Paul's great film collecting site with lots of info
• Start page Amateur filmer

Collecting other gauges, besides the usual ones.

• The twenty-eight mm pages of Grahame Newnham
• The 17,5 mm pages of Grahame Newnham
• Cinerdistan's info on all sizes with splendid photo's

Supplies:

• For service addresses see my Query page (click here)
  
• For Manuals see my FAQ page.
• Suppliers of parts/bulbs
• Cameras Pro 8/16mm film suplies/processing
• Rocky Mountain Lab filmsupplies/processing

Other link pages:

• Sam Dodge's great site with descriptions of really antigue movie cameras
• Service addresses and suppliers of lamps/parts
• David Augsburgers links to Movie Sites
• Film Collectors' Reference Centre. Manuals, movie auction, parts etc. well worth visiting.
• The Home Film Preservation Guide
• Petra Keller's (movie) Camerabooks
• Cinema sites links
• BKSTS: The Moving Image Society (wall-charts)
• Big Screen film exhibition industry site
• How movie projectors work
• The Internet Movie database
• Steve Schuler's used films for sale

South Manchuria (Edison?) 35mm projector lit by sunlight as street entertainment, turn of the century

UK/Great Britain

• National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, Bradford.UK
• Small Format 8, 9,5, 16mm. Magazine
• Cinerdistan with info on all gauges
• Oldtimer Cameras, Great Britain, supplies copies of a great number of manuals and other documentation.
• The Projection Box. Keith Herbert's important documentation and supplies site
• KW Technical Services. (Agents for Braun, Bauer, Cine Nizo)
• Lees Cameras, London, offer used equipment, spares, transfer to video services
• Derann Film Services, Dudley, West Midlands
• Buckingham Film Services
• Hailsham Camera Centre
• Lionel Hughes Photographica
• IAC - creative film, video & AV making
• Straight Eight with super 8 film competition
• Brian R Pritchard - Film Archivist. Literature on historic cinema
• Mad Cornish Projectionist's Information Web Site
• Cinerdistan's info on all sizes with splendid photo's

Netherlands/Belgium (Benelux)

• EYE Film Instituut Nederland/Netherlands Film Museum
• Museum v. Beeld en Geluid, Hilversum
• Stichting Amateurfilm
• Nederlandse Vereniging Fotografica (ook Cinematografica!)
• Cinegraphica. With interesting articles and images on rare vintage movie apparatus
• Stichting Amateurfilm.nl. Nuttige Nederlandse en internationale smalfilmlinks
• Magic Lantern collection 'De Luikerwaal', Huizen, the Netherlands. List swith important collectors. Also offers part of his collection for sale.
• Supersens verkoopt onbelichte films, ontwikkelt en digitaliseert ze. 8, 9,5, 16mm en andere formaten.
• Frank Bruinsma's super 8 reversal lab with details about his film developing service
• Trigger Nieuwegein - Digitalisering van 8 en 16mm films naar Blu-Ray, DVD en harddisk
• Cine 9,5 Nederland
• Cinegraphica (Belgium)
• Xavier Vanpevenaege filmcamera collector's site (Belgium)
• Chris Jagt's camera's en projectoren verzameling
• Ben van Beek's Cinema Equipment Collectors' paginas
• Huisfilmpagina Ben Dijkhuis
• Dibbets: Cinema Context. Film in Nederland vanaf 1896
• Nederlandse bioscoopgeschiedenis - Utrecht Project
• Smalfilm startkabel.nl
• Film links pagina.nl
• Filmstart.nl links pagina
• Smalfilmstart.nl links pagina
• Topcast filmvoorstellingen, onderhoud
• Catawiki Fotografica veiling
• Huisfilm discussie groep Nederland.
• Ron Botterman's Film Collector site
• Film montage artikelen
• Dissertatie over de familiefilm door Susan Aasman
• Belgische Amateur Kineasten links site
• SuperSens film/video transfer

France, Canada

• A wealth of information on early French cameras and projectors by Eric Lange
• Collectionner cinematographica
• Saga 8. Transfert de films super 8, 8mm, 16mm et 9.5mm
• Calendrier des foires cinéma
• Litérature du cinéma français
• Des liens neuf-cinque
• Les formats cinematographiques
• Ciné-Club 9,5mm
• Fondation Jerome Seydoux -Pathé >
• Le film 9,5 mm (P.Gauriat)
• Beaulieu Images
• Le site des vieux projecteurs cinemas de Jean-Claude Calas
• Family Movie, Paris. Transfer of Super 8, 8 mm, 9.5 and 16 mm films to miniDV, DVD and Hard Disk with MWA HDScan.
• Heeza. Toy projectors
• Interencheres.com, France

Germany/Deutschland/Austria/Õsterreich/Schweiz

• Super 8 TV magazine
• Cinematographica sammeln
• Kamera Daten Bank Deutsche Museen
• Deutsches Filmmuseum, Frankfurt, Germany
• Deutsches Filminstitut DIF
• Filmmuseum Potsdam
• Filmmuseum Romboy, Wesseling-Urfeld
• Cinegraph. Geschichte des deutschsprachigen Films
• Kahl German film supply and processing
• Kinotechnik Rinser
• Wittner Kinotechnik
• Herbert Lukaszewski's extensive optical toys, projectors and viewers site.
• Sammlerportal: Film & Foto (Õsterreich)

Italian

Proiettori Mario collection
• Collezionare apparechiature cinematografica
• Storia del cinema en Italia
• Cineprese da collezione
• Ottomillimetri
• La Collezione Minicine Zotti. Un museo di magiche Visioni

Australia/New Zealand

• Federation of Australian Movie Makers With a list of links to 25 Australian video and movie clubs
• Trevor Adams Filmstips site. New Zealand
• DVD Infinity, North Sydney, transfer to DVD of Standard/Regular 8mm, 9.5mm, 16mm, 17.5mm, 28mm and 35mm films.
• Kata Productions, Tasmania, transfer to DVD or video tape of standard/regular 8mm, 9.5mm, and 16mm films.
• Diskbank restoration and digitalisation services

Other countries

• Russian camera reference (in cyrilic characters)
• Russian camera forum (in cyrilic characters)
• Erkan Umut's list of Chinese manufacturers

EQUIPMENT/FILMS FOR SALE (commercial)/HIRE:

Video (transfer, digitalisation)

• DVD transfer is offered by: CJS Technologies
• 'Got memories?' (Scottsdale, Arizona) 8, 16mm film digital transfer
• Imemorybox 8, 9.5 and 16mm cine/video transfer, Darlington DL1 5JQ, North England
• Digital transfer systems from 8 and 16mm
• Bruce Mayfield's '8mm Film Transfer Film to Video / DVD', with tutorial.
• Home Movie Transfer
• High Sierra Productions, Pacific Northwest transfers all sizes to video/DVD.
• 9,5mm video transfer services in various countries
• Plato Video (U.K.) 8, 9.5, 16mm film transferred to video
• Lees Cameras, London, offer transfer to video services
• DVD Infinity, Sydney, Australia video transfer
• Kata Productions, Australia, transfer 8, 9.5, 16mm film to video
• SuperSens video/filmlaboratory Netherlands. They transfered practically all my films to video. I made of most of them YouTube video clips (950 now).

(All addresses are given without responsibility)

Various

• Films with supernatural themes
• A list of those boring film cliché's

The following are some valuable reference-books (most out-of-print) often used by collectors (depending on their nationality!):

• Ariel, Pete: Cinematographica Register (4 volumes, 1981-1990)(click)
• Auer, M. & Ory, M: Histoire de la Caméra Ciné Amateur (French, many fine photographs 1979)
• Auer, Michel: Collectors Guide to antigue cameras (1981)
• Barnes, John: The Rise of the Cinema in Great Britain, two volumes (1983)
• Barnes, John: The Beginnings of the Cinema in Great Britain, 5 volumes
• Bennett, Colin N.: The Handbook of Kinematography (1911)
• Cameron, David: How Films Were Made and Shown 1895-2015
• Cameron, James R: Motion picture Projection (various editions from 1918 until after WW2. Contains detailed descriptions of mainly American 16 and 35mm (cinema) projectors.
• Ceram, C.W.: Archeology of the Cinema (1965, also German and French editions)
• Coe, Brian: The History of Movie Photography (1981)
• Ducom Jacques: Le Cinématographe (1911)
• Fielding, Raymond: A technological history of Motion pictures (1983)
• Gardiakos, Soterius: Pre 1900 American made [Movie] projectors (2010)
• Gregory, C.L. : Motion Picture Photography (1920)
• Hecht, Hermann & Ann: Pre-Cinema and History (1993)
• Hendricks, Gordon: Origins of the American Film (Reprint 1972)
• Herbert, S.& McKernan, L.: Who's who of Victorian Cinema (1996)
• Herbert, S.: Industry, Liberty, and a Vision: Wordsworth Donisthorpe's Kinesigraph (2004)
• Hopwood, Henry V.: Living Pictures (1899. Reprinted by Arno Press. It is now also available on CD, with 1915 update from 'The Projection Box' )
• Hrabalek, E: Laterna Magica (German magic lantern price-guide 1985)
• Hulfish, David S.: Motion Picture Work (1913)
• Jenkins & Depue: Handbook for Motion Picture and Stereopticon Operators (1908)
• Kattelle, Alan: Home Movies. An important book with a wealth of data on the history of the (American) (amateur) film industry (2000)
• Liesegang, F. Paul : Handbuch der praktischen Kinematography (1908)
• Liesegang, F.P.: Dates and Sources. A contribution to the history of the art of projection and to cinematography ( 1986)
• Lobel, Léopold: La Technique Cinématographique (1912 - 1927)
• Lossau, Jürgen: Filmkameras & Filmprojectors (listing 3000 16, 9,5, 8, single and super 8mm cameras) (German/English 2000/5):
• Mannoni, Laurent: Le Mouvement continue (Catalogue: Cinematheque française, Musée du Cinema)(1996)
• McKee, G.: The Home Cinema, Classic Home Movie Projectors 1922-1940 (1989, A third printing has become available in August 2000. Direct enquiries to Gerald McKee, 7 Lordslaine Close, Eastbourne, East Sussex, BN20 7UF, UK)
• McKee, G. : A half century of film collecting (1993, still available. See address above)
• McKeown, J.: Price-guide to Cameras
• Oldtimer Cameras Ltd. 'Expert System': details of cine cameras and projectors on sale in the U.K. from 1956 to 1982 (3 volumes)
• Pont, Patrice-Hervé: Catalogue des Cameras Francaises(1993)
• Quigley, Martin, Jr.: Magic Shadows. The story of the origin of Motion Pictures(1960)
• Richardson, F.H.: Motion Picture Handbook (The rival of Cameron, see above). Various editions beginning 1910 until the forties.
• Ristow, Juergen: Vom Geisterbild zum Breitwandfilm. Aus der Geschichte der Filmtechnik (1986)
• Rossell, Deac: Living Pictures. The origins of the movies (1998)
• Sadoul, Georges: L'Invention du Cinéma 1832-1897 (1945)
• Samuelson, David W.: Motion Picture Camera Data (modern prof. cameras 1979)
• Schmidt, Hans : Kino-Taschenbuch (1926)
• Toulet, Emmanuelle : Birth of the Motion Picture (1995, translated from the French)
• Tuemmel, Herbert: Deutsche Laufbildprojektoren (German 1986)(All German projectors and their manufacturers)
• Wade, John: The Collector's Guide to Cine Cameras (2000)

I have quite a number of second hand books on cinematography for sale.
Ask for list wichm@NOSPAMxs4all.nl after deleting NOSPAM from the address.

More books:

• Abbott, Harold B. : Motion pictures with the Baby Ciné (1929?)
• Abbott, Harold B: : The complete 9,5mm Cinematographer (1938)
• Alden, Andrew: Bolex Bible (1998)
• Bennett, Colin N.: A Guide to Kinematography Projection (1923)
• Brown B.: Talking Pictures (1931)
• Cricks, Howard R.: The complete projectionist (1937)
• Dickson, W.K.J.: History of the Kinetograph, Kinetoscope and the Kineto-Phonograph (1895, reprinted)
• Enz, Kurt: Filmprojektoren, Filmprojektion (1965)
• Hepworth: Animated Photography (1900, reprinted 1970 by Arno Press)
• Horstmann & Tousley: Motion Picture operation. Stage electrics and illusions (1914)
• Jenkins, C.F.: Animated Pictures (1898, reprinted 1970 by Arno Press)
• Jenkins & Depue: Handbook of Motion Pictures and Stereopticons (1908)
• Jones, E.: Practical Guide to the taking and projecting of cinematographic pictures (1915)
• Kermabon, Jacques: Pathé, premier empire du cinéma (1994)
• Kuball Michael: Familien-Kino, die Geschichte des Amateurfilms in Deutschland 1900-1960 (1980)
• Lescarboura, Austin C.: The Cinema handbook (1921)
• Lutz, E.G.: The Motion Picture Cameraman (1927)
• Macintosh, Douglas: A Handbook of 9,5mm Cinematography (2000)
• Mariani, v. : Guida pratica della Cinematografia (1923)
• Merle, André: Les Appareils de Prise de Vues Cinématographiques (1926)
• Moigno, Abbé: l'Art des Projections (1872)
• Musser, Charles: Thomas A. Edison and his Kinetographic Motion Pictures (1995)\
• Neuhauss, Dr. R.: Lehrbuch der Projektion (1901)
• Opfermann, H.C.: Die neue Schmalfilm-Schule (various editions from 1940 till the fifties)
• Repinski, Cynthia A.: The Univex Story (1991)
• Richardson, F.H.: 'Bluebook of Projection' (1942-1953?)
• Sloane, O'Connor T.: Motion Picture Projection (1922)
• The Modern Bioscope Operator (1917 4th ed.)

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