A good place to look would be the recent book Exhibiting Cinema in Contemporary Art by Erika Balsom.
On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Mary Stark <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
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