My library is a working, growing collection of literature focused on the history of motion pictures and photography. As a filmmaker, the collection also has a focus on the technical specifications of early photographic and motion picture apparatus.
Reference Library
and reference books.
Histoire comparée du cinéma.
Jacques Deslandes
Histoire de la camera cine amateur
Michel & Michele Ory Auer
Archaeology of Cinema
C.W. Ceram
Ottomar Anschütz and his Electrical Wonder
Deac Rossell
Vitagraph: America’s First Great Motion Picture Studio
Andrew A. Erish
A Technological History of Motion Pictures and Television
University of California Press 1967
The Parade's Gone By..
Kevin Browlow
Beyond Adventure
Roy Chapman Andrews
Charles Urban: Pioneering the Non-Fiction Film in Britain and America, 1897-1925
Pioneers of the British Film
John Barnes
Gebrauch Anweisung Kretzschmar Kinematographen
Kretzschmar Kinematographen
Le Cinématographe scientifique et industriel.
Jacques Ducom
Le Cinema Des Origines a nos Jours
G.M. Coissac
The Brighton School and the Birth of British Film
Frank Gray
Main Street Movies: The History of Local Film in the United States
Martin L. Johnson
A Million and One Nights
Terry Ramsave
The Beginnings of the Cinema in England 1894-1901
Vol. 1 - 5
John Barnes
The Camera House Price List- 1914
W. Butcher and Sons, Ltd.
Instructions for the Operation and Care of The Akeley Camera
Akeley Camera Inc.
The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures: A True Tale of Obsession, Murder, and the Movies
Paul Fischer
Animated Photography: The ABC of the Cinematograph
Cecil M. Hepworth