Resources

Sprocket School hosted resources

• Sprocket School resource list
• List of analog film exhibitors
• Directory of equipment manufacturers and suppliers
• List of technicians
• List of cinema technology archives
• International film glossary

Community, Discussion, & Professional Organizations

• filmprojection21.org
• Art House Convergence / AHC listserv
• Association of Moving Image Archivists / AMIA listserv
  • AMIA Film Advocacy Task Force
  • AMIA Annual Conference
  • AMIA Projection Workshops
• FIAF - International Federation of Film Archives
• International Moving Image Society (formerly the British Kinematograph, Sound and Television Society)
• Film-Tech
• Filmvorführer.de (german)
• Frameworks email list
• Japanese Community Cinema Center
• Mad Cornish Projectionist / We Can Still Show Film
• Projected Picture Trust
• Projectionniste.net (french)
• Savefilm.org
• SMPTE (the Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers)
• Sprocket School's own List of analog film exhibitors

Online resources

• Technical Journals Collection at the Media History Digital Library
  • Media History Digital Library intensive search interface
• The Internet Archive
  • F. H. Richardson's Bluebook of Projection, 7th edition (1942)
  • SMPTE Journals from the 1910s - 1950s: [1], [2] via the Prelinger Library
  • International Projectionist issues
  • The Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation
• Pytlak's Practical Projection Pointers
• Film-Tech
  • Forums
  • Manuals
  • Kodak Film Notes
• Timeline of Historical Film Colors
• Future Projections
• Showmanship A Guide to Good Projection and Operating Practices

Preservation, Conservation, and Film Handling

• National Film Preservation Board: Handling and Projecting 35mm Archive and Studio Prints - Voluntary Guidelines
• Film Preservation Guide from the National Film Preservation Foundation
• "A Guide to Best Practices in Film Handling" from the Film on Film Foundation
• Film Forever: The Home Film Preservation Guide
• Guide to identifying color film stocks
• Video Aids to Film Preservation
• Kodak Film Handling and Damage Identification

Small Formats: 16mm, 9.5mm, 8mm, etc.

• 16mm Directory
• Olaf's 16mm Kino (in German)
• Super8wiki
• Super 8 database / external links

Large Formats: 70mm, IMAX, etc.

• American WideScreen Museum
• in70mm.com

Research Aids

• Glossary of Filmographic Terms from FIAF
• Glossary of Film Technical Terms from FIAF
• Google Patent search

Offline resources

• Belton, John. Widescreen Cinema. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992. [ISBN: 067495260X]

• Blasko, Edward, Benjamin A. Luccitti, and Susan F. Morris, eds. The Book of Film Care. 2nd ed. Rochester: Eastman Kodak Company, 1992. [ISBN: 0879854790; Kodak publication number H-23]

• Happé, Bernard, ed. Motion Picture Presentation Manual: A Comprehensive Handbook of Projection Practice. Rev. ed. London: The British Kinematograph, Sound and Television Society, 1979. [ISBN: 0856580732]

• Kattelle, Alan. Home Movies: A History of the American Industry 1897-1979. Transition Pub, 2000. [ISBN: 0965449785]

• Kloepfel, Don V., ed. Motion-Picture Projection and Theatre Presentation Manual. Scarsdale, NY: Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Inc., 1969. [ISBN: 0940690012]

• Sætervadet, Torkell. The Advanced Projection Manual: Projecting Classic Films in a Modern Projection Environment. Oslo: The Norwegian Film Institute and the International Federation of Film Archives, 2006. [ISBN: 2960029615]

• Uren, Martin. British Kinematograph, Sound and Television Society Illustrated Dictionary of Moving Image Technology. 4th ed. Boston: Focal Press, 2001. [ISBN: 024051632X]

Fun

• Projectionists Draw Projectors
• Planetary Projection
• Projection and projectionists in film
• "Murder on the Screen" (1958)
• Letters to the Projectionist
• Complete Issues of International Projectionist and The Motion Picture Projectionist from The Media History Digital Library
• China Girls/Leader Ladies
• Cinema Treasures