Resources

See HERE for Sprocket School produced resources! Lists of technicians • technology archives • equipment manufacturers • [List_of_analog_film_exhibitors analog exhibitors] • and more

Community, Discussion, & Professional Organizations

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

Online resources

• F. H. Richardson's Bluebook of Projection, 7th edition (1942)
• Pytlak's Practical Projection Pointers
• Technical Journals Collection at the Media History Digital Library
• Film-Tech: Forums / Manuals / Kodak Film Notes
• SMPTE Journals from the 1910s - 1950s at the Internet Archive: [1], [2] via the Prelinger Library.
• Timeline of Historical Film Colors
• filmlabs.org

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
• Video Aids to Film Preservation

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

• 16mm Directory
• Olaf's 16mm Kino (in German)
• Super8wiki

Large Formats: 70mm, IMAX, etc.

• American WideScreen Museum
• in70mm.com

Research Aids

• 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