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A

Birt Acres, film pioneer

Agfa

Single/straight 8mm Movex camera

B

Bell & Howell

35mm Standard Cinematograph camera (1912)

Filmo 75 16mm camera, three models (image)

Filmo 57 16mm projector (1923 -31, image)

Streight 8mm camera

repair of equipment

Bibliography, see 'Literature'

Bièvres annual photographica market

Biograph Company (Mutoscope)

Biokam

17½mm camera of 1899

Biokam 17½ filmframe

Birtac / Birt Acres

Birt Acres, film pioneer

Bolex, see Paillard Bolex

Bolsey (smallest) 8mm camera

Bonds Ltd., see Kinora

Books

Books, see 'Literature'

C

Cameras

List of more than 1100 cameras and projectors

first motorised (Bell & Howell, 1912 )

first motorised 16mm camera (Victor)

first 16mm optical sound camera (RCA-Victor)

Cameras (buying/selling), see also 'cinematographica'

suppliers of parts/belts

repair of

Cameras Projectors Ltd., London (Midas)

Celluloid (see Nitrate)

nitrate film

images on c. disc (Spirogram)

Chrono de Poche, see Gaumont

Cinelin toy theatre

Cinématographe, Ernst plank

Cinéorama widescreen

Cinemascope - 55 widescreen size

Cinematography, see 'movie making'

Cinematographica

Books

info on/manuals for cameras/projectors

my selling list

for sale by readers on my billboard

my 'want' list

wanted by readers (Billboard)

queries by readers (Billboard)

read this before offering equipment for sale

not wanted/high shipping costs

where to sell items

suppliers of lamps/bulbs

suppliers of parts

Cinerama 180 widescreen

Collecting, see also 'cinematographica' (for buying/selling)

reasons for/fun of

collecting areas

films

historical equipment, films, milestones

memorabilia

projectors

professional equipment

make/manufacturer

off-sized equipment/films

special themes

Collectors (see also 'collecting')

Books used

breed apart

Comicscope toy slide projector

Cook, W.B. see New Premier Pathescope

Corbett/Fitzsimmons fight 63mm film

image of relative 63mm filmstrip

D

Darling 35mm camera

Darling 35mm camera (image)

Davsco Professionel Kino 35mm camera (image)

Debrie, André

Le Parvo 35mm camera

Demeny

Phonoscope

Dickson,W.K.L., orders film from Eastman

Duplex, see 'Pathé'

E

Eastman Kodak

order for cine film from Edison

early nitrate film fragile

acquires Pathé late twenties

Ebay auctions

Edison

Contribution to standardization 35mm

Filmstrip of 1890 ('Monkeeyshine')

Filmstrip of 1891

cinema poster around 1900

Projecting Kinetoscope #K 3015 (after 1902, image)

Home Kinetoscope 22mm projector

- same - (image)

- same - (image)

22mm filmstrip

'Edison size'= 35mm

Eight mm (see also single, straight, super 8mm)

Forerunner Kodel/Kemco (1930

Introduction by Kodak in 1932

Single/straight (streight) 8 (1936)

8 and 16mm filmstrips (image)

8mm (super & single) 1965

Elmo prewar 8mm projector

Equipment (where to buy/sell), see 'Cinematographica'

Ernemann (Heinrich)

Ernemann Kino projector (1903)

17½mm filmstrip Kino (image)

model A 35mm camera (1908,image)

Kinox 1 35mm projector (image)

F

Freiburg, Apparatebau, see Lytax

G

Gaumont & Cie, Etabl. Léon Ernest

Chrono de Poche (15mm, 1900) camera

Chrono de Poche 15mm camera (image)

Geyer 16mm camera and projector (1926)

Glass plate devices

Demeny Phonoscope

film frames on glass plate

Rudge's early

H

History

Association Francaise. History of early cinema (French)

Library of Congress: Early motion pictures 1897-1916

All about Siegmund Lubin, the American film pioneer (1851-1923)

Quellen zur (Deutsche) Filmgeschichte

Hobby, see 'collecting/collectors'

opening one's own theatre

Home movies, see also 'making movies'

nostalgia

Huet & Cie Cinephot disc camera

I

Imax

Info on apparatus

J

Japanese Rola and Sakura cameras

K

Kamm, Leo and his Kammatograph

Keystone

A3,A7, and B1 cameras

A-7 camera manual

K-32 camera manual

D-64 200 W. 16mm projector (1936?)

A-75 500 watt 16mm projector (1938?)

8mm R-8 projector (1937?)

8mm projector 110 (1960?)

Kodak, Eastman

model A first 16mm camera

Gerald McKee on Kodascope model A

Chronology of Eastman Kodak motion picture film (1910-1996)

Kodacope model D projector manual

Kinetoscope, Edison Home (22mm)

Kodel/Kemco Home Movie (1930)

Kinora

camera for "1" paperfilm (image)

viewer

L

Laterna Magica

Lido (Pathé) 9,5/4,75mm cam/proj.

Literature on vintage apparatus and history

Publications of Deutsches Film Museum)

Pre-cinema and Early film publishers "The Projectionbox"

Bibliography

Lubin, Siegmund, the American film pioneer (1851-1923)

Lumière

1895 35mm camera/projector (image)

Lumiere, a myth?

- same - rear view

35mm film frame (image)

70mm widescreen (1900)

poster (image)

Lytax 35mm camera (image, 1920?)

-same - rear view

M

Magazines on movie (collecting)

'Amateur Cine Enthusiast' monthly magazine (UK)

Magic lanterns

Van Houten magic lantern postcard

Magnafilm 56mm widescreen size(1930)

Manuals

Markets

Midas 9½mm camera/projector

Monaco (Pathé) 9,5/4,75mm projector

Movie making

cost of making movies

Processing your own Movie film

Museums, links to

More links

Mutoscope of the Biograph Company

Eadweard Muybridge, Father of the Motion Picture

Muybridge animated pictures

N

Natural vision widescreen (1926)

New Premier Pathescope

- same - (image)

Newmann & Sinclair, 35mm Auto kine camera of 1946 (image)

Newsgroups movie related

Nine Five (=9½mm)

international film clubs

versus 16mm

9.5mm film

Nitrate film

early nitrate film thin and fragile

highly inflammable

Normal film = 35mm

O

Olikos

camera

Omnimax widescreen

P

Paillard Bolex

History and model characteristics

three of their first 16mm cameras

window display model (1937?)

Panoramica 70mm widescreen(1914)

Parvo, Le, camera, see 'Debrie'

Pathé

taken over by Kodak late twenties

Advertising sign (late twenties?)

- Same - but of a stylised design (late thirties?)

35mm printer around 1900 (image)

'Professionel' 35mm camera (image)

'Professionel' 35mm camera (1908)

Studio 35mm camera (1906, image)

Kok camera (1913)

28mm camera (1913, image)

Kok projector (28mm)

28mm Kok projector (image)

28mm filmstrip (image)

Baby camera and projector

Baby camera and projector (image)

prototype(?) Baby projector (image)

Baby 9½mm printer (around 1928, image)

Rural 17½mm projector

- same - (image)

Rex 17½mm projector

Vox 9½mm sound projector

widescreen 4 3/4mm duplex (1955)

Duplex Lido camera and Monaco projector

Dinky toy newsreel reporter

Bolex conversion to super 16. Visit Animato's site.

Pathescope

New premier Pathescope 28mm projector

Rex 17½mm sound projector

Lido duplex 9½/4,75mm camera

Princess 9,5mm projector

9,5mm Pathescope silent film catalogue

9,5mm Pathescope sound film catalogue

Paul, Robert

Pelicule format standard = 35mm

Powers 35mm projector (1905)

Precinema

Prestwich projector around 1898

Prices (see also 'value', 'wanted', 'sale, for',)

still moderate

Projectors (buying/selling), see 'Cinematographica'

List of more than 1100 projectors and cameras

suppliers of projection lamps

suppliers of parts/belts

repair of

Ben van Beek's 16/35mm projection pages

Q

R

Radiquet & Massiot projection mechanism around 1897 (image)

RCA - Victor first optical sound 16mm camera

Realife widescreen

Regular 8mm (before 1965) see: Eight mm

Rokuohsha, Tokyo (Konica)

Rola K.N.W. Tokyo, Cine, Japanese imitation Pathé 9,5mm camera

- same - (image)

Rudge

Rural, Pathé

S

Safety film

tri-acetate replaces nitrate film

Sakura prewar 16mm camera

Le Seul camera/projector

Siemens, three of their 16mm cameras

Simplex Pockette camera manual

Single 8mm

forerunners

Fujica (1965)

38mm Casimir Sivan

Sizes (film)(see also 'Film sizes' for different widths)

100 Years of film sizes

more than 100 formats

standard size = 35mm

Standardization

growth due to standardization

smalfilm/schmalfilm = substandard size (see filmsizes)

Sixteen millimeter

Introduction in 1923

first Kodak 16mm camera

first Victor 16mm electric 16mm camera

Societies

BKSTS: The Moving Image Society (wall-charts)

Sound

Western Electric sound-on-disc system

RCA - Victor first optical sound 16mm camera

9½mm sound

Spirograph

Spirogram celluloid disc

Straight/streight/single 8mm (prewar)

split regular 8mm

Super 8mm

introduction 1965

Super 16mm

Introduction 1971

T

Theatre. opening one's own

Todd-AO widescreen

Todd-AO frame image

U

Uncle Sam toy projector cum gramophone

Universal 35mm projector (image)

Univex single(straight) 8mm camera

V

Value of cameras/projectors (queries)

Victor Animatograph Co.

28mm projector"

image

first 16mm electric 16mm camera

RCA-Victor 16mm sound camera

model 3 16mm camera manual

Video

transfering films to video

How film is transferred to video

opening a video theatre

Vox, Pathé 9½mm sound projector

W

Warwick (?) 35mm projector (around 1900, image)

Western Electric sound-on-disc system

Widescreen

pre WW1 sizes

post WW1 sizes

Wittnauer Cine-Twin camera/projector

X

Y

Z

Zollinger 35mm camera

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