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.
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