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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
- Art House Convergence / AHC listserv
- Association of Moving Image Archivists / AMIA listserv
- 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
- 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.
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
- China Girls/Leader Ladies
- Cinema Treasures