CONTENTS
The site has gotten much bigger than I expected, so some assistance in navigation seems necessary. Below is a site map; click here for a Projector Index.
The site is divided into a number of main sections, mostly by film gauges, which appear on the Home Page, and are largely self-explanatory. Each section itself is further subdivided into various topics - a sort of secondary (and sometimes even tertiary) index - and this enables you to see what is there. Or you can just scroll down this page. Most of the main sections are available direct from any page by using the links bar you will find at the top or bottom of any page.Some sections, however, only appear on the Home page or in a secondary or tertiary Index. In the listing below, a click on any blue sub-heading will take you straight to that section of the website. You can use the Back arrow to return to this Contents page or use the links bar so you can skip direct to other parts as you choose.
You can also, as I confess I do, use the Joomla! search box top right of the page.
I have finally (Aug 2012) separated 8 from 16 into its own section. So far there are Bolex, Zeiss, Elmo, Dralowid and Eumig pages, with a Various page for the rest.
9.5 Silent, covering:-
Pathé Baby ie about the Pathé Baby/Home Movie projector. A separate section, The Richardson Collection, covers a huge collection of rare machines and accessories. Another page, The Hackman Collection, shows another major collection.
Frames - random frame enlargements from 9.5.
Baby Equipment and Film Catalogues (the latter covering French and English versions) each have their own section. Non-Baby projector stuff is under miscellany below. There is also a page on a What the Butler Saw kind of Baby, that I wrote up for Flickers.
Under Various, as well as odd bits, are sections on the Coq d'Or, Duplex (with a page on the Monaco projector), Lux, Pathescope "H" , Camjectors (camera/projectors like the Midas) and Toy Projectors . I had quite a lot on the Dekko, which is mainly a toy machine, so it has its own page.
The Lost Chord - a history of one man's search for the ultimate in 9.5 sound reproduction
Silent to Sound - some of the efforts to get sound from silent machines, especially 9.5
Pathé Vox - stuff about this seminal 9.5 machine.
Cinegel Royale, tho' I spose you could argue it belongs in multi-gauge. Indeed, I have found that I did start in Multi-gauge ages ago and forgot.
Joinville Equipment - pix and catlogs from the last few years of Pathé 9.5, when they finally introduced a respectable range of projectors plus a report by Bill Kilgour on his uprating of a Pax.
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A short history of 9.5 by Paul van Someren and Pat Moules, (an early version of what now appears in the 9.5 Vintage Film Encyclopedia) with additional sections on NovaScope, Pathescope Monthly/Gazette and its Baby Cine predecessor, and the French Cinéma Chez Soi.
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These are translations I did of some French articles about 9.5 producers and stencil colour, this last one having an extra page on Pathécolour.
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9.5 Miscellany - stuff with no other obvious home.
Equipment Catalogues etc, (excluding Baby - see above) which covers:-
Spare Parts. Pathé used to produce such beautiful, clear, detailed parts lists.
Gear. Some of the huge range of ancillary bits and pieces available for cine.
Pre-War and Post-War catalogues - some of these were gorgeous, too.
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Posters. Peter Spooner (An old friend sadly deceased) gave me some copies of cinema posters, and I picked out some that were relevant to 9.5.
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16mm is not really my thing, but there are some pretty projectors, so I needed a section. It is divided simply into sound and silent. Various sound machines are listed with a separate page for those where I have more info, including Phillips and Kinox. Ampro,Victor, Danson, Debrie, GB L516, Victor and BTH have their own pages so far.
Multi-Gauge
Two sections:-
1. A PROJECTOR page, with sub pages for Alef, (because they made machines for various gauges, and I don't have a better slot), Bolex DA, Bolex G, Heurtier (which includes a short piece on the Cinegel Royale, tho' most is in 9.5 sound), Specto (with a sub-page on UP8), Ditmar, Nizo, Sakurascope and Various M-G machines/makes.
2. A GENERAL TOPICS page, including
FLICKERS magazine
Buckingham Movie Museum - a pictorial tour.
Care, Repair & Restoration. This includes Restoration - some thoughts on what is and isn't legitimate; Back From the Bodge,
an example of restoration after butchery; a fairly basic first chapter on film care and repair and a slightly more advanced chapter. I have now added a section on old projector amps, and another on Detailing - cleaning up and presenting a projector for display. There is stuff specifically on 17.5mm repair in Big Brother 2.
Film Catlogs - some of the catalogues put out by various home cine distributors.
Film Dimensions I am trying to draw together in one place info that has come my way on film dimensions, with a table to summarise. I found lots of pix re 22mm Home Kinetoscope, but it's not a major interest so I've just subbed it off this page. The never-quite made-it gauge of 3.2mm is here, too.
Argenteuil film fair, as I need a home for all the pix I have taken.
PPT. I have included a few pictures of equipment held by the Projected Picture Trust, which seeks to preserve cinema and home movie equipment .
I suppose it was my near-obsession with 17.5 (and 28mm) that started me on this website. The 17.5 saga has grown from an initial article I wrote for ACE, which has acquired several more chapters and still continues. It has gotten too big for just a serial approach, so I've split it into projector types to give a less random structure, with the first two episodes as a kind of general introduction.
Big Brother 1 and
Big Brother 2 These two pages chronicle my relatively recent re-involvement with 17.5. Eventually, it became obvious I would have to change tack and give each machine its own page.
Pathé Rural The small cinema network in France, and a historical overview of Pathé Rural in its 17.5 days.
Rex The original 17.5mm silent machine, known in France as the Rural.
Home Talkie This was the basic UK machine, virtually nothing else was sold here.
Rural Sonore This was the original French Sound 17.5, a development of the silent Rural
Super Rural Few if any made it to the UK, tho' it was advertised as the Super Talkie.
Publicity - Some genuine Pathé advertising placards for 17.5 releases, plus equipment brochure and film catlog extracts. Also some examples of silent Rural programme posters.
Oh dear, another obsession. Only five sections tho':-
MY 28mm Story - this has a sub-page with copies of Instructions and projector manuals
Catalogue - info on my 28mm catalogue and contents of DVD's from 28mm prints.
28mm film repairs - notes on specific films and general guidance, aimed mainly at newcomers to 28mm
28mm machines and accessories- pages for KOK, Premier, Victor and Accessories (usually ones I have made)
The 28mm Story My three FLICKERS articles on 28mm.
Mostly just odd pix of 35mm machines of interest. There are a couple of sub-pages.
This site is mostly about projectors and pictures of projectors, so.... There is also a Son (ugh!) of Gallery, and a Side Gallery
with various odd pix.
Lamps - data on projector lamps, with a link to pix of lamp conversions bought together from elsewhere on the site. I have opened a page for articles etc about projector light output.
35mm pix - pictures of various old and some very new machines. Now a special page on a rare machine, the Educator
Books - these are some of the very few books, mags etc to do with cine
Aunt Em - projector problems or questions? Ask Aunt Em!
Chateau Nerdistan - a glimpse inside
Links - Links to various people and places you might find helpful.