Reference Library

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 offering invaluable insight into the evolution of these art forms and their foundational technologies.

my favorite resources.

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

Luke McKernan

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