100th Anniversary of Kodak's 16mm

[Simon Wyss]

9.5-mm. film is one year older. 16 has become the universal small-gauge format in 1936, all around the globe. Ten years later with the Mitchell 16 Professional a benchmark was set what concerns cameras. Six years after that with the Arriflex 16 the first mirror-shutter reflex 16-mm. camera came to the market. On the projector side there were fine apparatus around already since the twenties. 16 offers compactness of equipment while maintaining many technical possibilities. I think the choice of optics is the vastest with 16. On my ever-growing list I’m counting 220 models of 16-mm. film cameras. Of course, there are a few not so good ones, too. Stay away from the Zeiss-Ikon Movikon 16. To name one of the best: Bell & Howell Filmo 70

The choice of film stocks is formidable today with the exception of a low-speed fine grain panchromatic black-and-white reversal material, the flavour with which it had begun.

[Rodney Bourke]

I found this article on the New York Times, about the 100th Anniversary of 16mm.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/18/m...niversary.html

[Rodney Bourke]

Also the East Anglian Film Archive at Norwich, had a 16mm Centenary Film Screening.

https://eafa.org.uk/hods-2023-film-s...lf-expression/

[Rodney Bourke]

For New York times article on 16mm Centenary also see link

https://www.bing.com/search?q=16mm+1...&ghacc=0&ghpl=


And "The Grand Illusion" seattle's oldest running movie theatre Presents 16mm Film Screenings.


https://grandillusioncinema.org/series/16mm-centennial/

[Rodney Bourke]

Kodak 16mm 100th Anniversary list notable titles shot on 16mm Film.

https://www.kodak.com/en/motion/page...-of-16mm-film/

[Rodney Bourke]

A fitting DVD / Bluray for the 100th of 16mm "Beyond the Bolex"

https://beyondthebolex.com/

[Rodney Bourke]

And another Fitting Movie is the story made about a young Steven Spielberg "The Fabelmans", starting on a Kodak 8mm, and then going to a Bolex 16mm and then an Arriflex 16mm, which eventually led him to Hollywood, and the rest is History. Now on Bluray.