Hi Rebecca, I have been working with 16mm film as installation using loops, fresnel lenses and film as a sculptural material. If you are interested please look at my website and blog http://www.marystark.co.uk/ http://interwovenpractices.co.uk/
Best wishes, Mary Stark Tel: 07828450979 On 17 Dec 2013, at 20:27, Jonathan Walley <[email protected]> wrote: > Rebecca, et. al., > > After re-reading your post, and reading Scott's response, it strikes me that > you may have been looking for information about early (e.g. silent, > "primitive?") film systems that involved viewing 16mm film without lens or > projector. Your use of the term "installation" made me assume expanded > cinema, film installation, etc., but then there's your reference to the > zoetrope, which suggests that you're looking for something further back in > history. Of course, the zoetrope did not use film of any kind. What's more, > 16mm film wasn't invented until 1923, by which time projection - with lenses > - was, of course, standard practice in film exhibition. I'm not aware of any > viewing systems for 16mm that don't employ at least lenses: flatbed editors > don't quite "project" the images, at least not in the same way a projector > does, and devices like Moviolas and Moviscopes don't involve projection - the > film image is simply magnified into a viewer, not unlike the Kinetsoscope. > But these systems are used to edit film reels, not to show loops. And they > all use lenses. > > Specifying your research project would be helpful - can we have a little more > detail? > Jonathan > > Dr. Jonathan Walley > Associate Professor > Department of Cinema > Denison University > [email protected] > > > On Dec 17, 2013, at 12:44 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote: > >> Well, the first loop system was the Edison Kinetoscope but that was 35mm.. >> --scott >> _______________________________________________ >> FrameWorks mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks > > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks _______________________________________________ FrameWorks mailing list [email protected] https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
