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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
- 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]
- Richardson, Frank Herbert. Motion Picture Handbook: A Guide for Managers and Operators of Motion Picture Theatres. 3rd ed. New York: The Moving Picture World, 1916.
- 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