LINKS TO WEBSITES AND LITERATURE ON VINTAGE FILM (MOVIE CINE) CAMERAS and PROJECTORS (original) (raw)

CINEMATOGRAPHICA

SUMMARY

Literature
More literature
General links
History links
Museums
Auctions
[My cinematographica collection](#mijn verzameling)
Precinema/Magic Lanterns
Collecting/filming 9,5mm
Filming 8/16mm
Manuals
Service addresses and names of suppliers of parts
List of some 3000 cameras and projectors
UK/Great Britain links
Benelux - Dutch/Belgian links
French/Canadian links
German/Swiss/Austrian links
Italian links
Australian/New Zealand links
Equipment for sale
Frequently asked questions
Some film to video transfer services
Various
Film to video transfer

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Links:

History:

Museums:

Auctions/markets:

Westlicht Photographica Auktion, Vienna, Austria.
Breker Auktion Team, K�ln, 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

YouTube clips of my cinematographica collection

Precinema/Magic Lanterns:

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 Path� cassettes
Grahame Newnham's List of books on 9,5mm
Grahame Newnham's 9,5mm Equipment Catalogue (non-Pathescope)
Microscope on Path�scope 9,5mm printed films (Gerald McKee)
List of Felix the Cat films in 9,5mm
9,5 groups around the world (by Grahame Newnham)
Cin�-Club 9,5mm France
Fondation Jerome Seydoux -Path� >
Yahoo group: Les amateurs de pathe-baby
Path�scope 9,5mm Homepage (UK)
The Nine - Five Page of Grahame Newnham
Cine 9,5 Nederland
9,5mm forum

Filming in (super)8 or 16mm:

Collecting other gauges, besides the usual ones.

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:

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

UK/Great Britain

Netherlands/Belgium (Benelux)

France, Canada

Germany/Deutschland/Austria/�sterreich/Schweiz

Italian

Proiettori Mario collection

Australia/New Zealand

(Any suggestions?)

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

(Any suggestions?)

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

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 Cin�matographe (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, L�opold: La Technique Cin�matographique (1912 - 1927)
Lossau, J�rgen: Filmkameras & Filmprojectors (listing 3000 16, 9,5, 8, single and super 8mm cameras) (German/English 2000/5):
Mannoni, Laurent: Le Mouvement continue (Catalogue: Cinematheque fran�aise, Mus�e 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-Herv�: 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 Cin�ma 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.
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More books:

Abbott, Harold B. : Motion pictures with the Baby Cin� (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: Path�, premier empire du cin�ma (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, Andr�: Les Appareils de Prise de Vues Cin�matographiques (1926)
Moigno, Abb�: 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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