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

Community, Discussion, & Professional Organizations

• Sprocket School listserv
• Art House Convergence / AHC listserv
• Association of Moving Image Archivists / AMIA listserv
  • AMIA Film Advocacy Task Force
  • AMIA Annual Conference
• BKSTS - British Kinematograph, Sound and Television Society
• FIAF - International Federation of Film Archives
• Film-Tech
• Frameworks email list
• Japanese Community Cinema Center
• Mad Cornish Projectionist / We Can Still Show Film
• Projected Picture Trust
• 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

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
• International Film Glossary from the Northwest Chicago Film Society
• Google Patent search

Offline resources

• The Book of Film Care, Eastman Kodak Company. Edited by Paul L. Gordon, 1983.
• The Advanced Projection Manual, FIAF/Norsk Filminstitutt. Torkell Sætervadet, 2005.
• Motion-Picture Projection and Theatre Presentation Manual, SMPTE. Edited by Don V. Kloepfel, 1969.
• Home Movies: A History of the American Industry 1897-1979, Transition Pub, Alan Kattelle, 2000.

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