I remember the great photographer and filmmaker Danny Lyon
saying he shared a film camera with Robert Frank.
If it was a Bolex they held in common,
then Lyon as raconteur ( as well as in oeuvre)
would be one of the few who might rival Robert Frank.
On Dec 29, 2015, at 7:05 AM, [email protected] wrote:
Dear Frameworkers,
For nearly five years, I have been working on a documentary about
the swiss precision industry that produced the Bolex’s, Kern lenses
and the Nagra. I have already met over 30 former employee of theses
companies as well as filmmakers.
You can watch a trailer featuring Otello Diotallevi who is the last
Bolex employee by clicking the link below:
https://vimeo.com/150185992
I am trying to find people that used to visit the Paillard Showroom
at 265 Madison Avenue in New-York.They were also located in 100
Avenue of the America and later in Linden, New-Jersey. If any of you
have some stories about it, I would be very interested to hear it
(Images Below). I will probably be in New-York in January.
I am also copying an article from the Bolex Reporter entitled « The
New American Cinema Group ».The article was written in 1966 by Fred
W. Mc Darrah. I was very surprised to see Robert Frank in the
article, I always thought he was filming with an arriflex at least
from the film « Pull my daisy ». If I remember correctly, Robert
Beavers the partner of Gregory Markopoulos told me that Paillard
lent some cameras to the filmmakers in exchange of the article. Some
of them never came back.
If any of you could help me contact Mr Mekas I would appreciate it
very much, I have been trying to contact him for three years without
success.
There is a film on the inventor of the first Bolex's ( http://www.jacquesbolseyproject.com/index.html
) that should be released next year and a book was released in
French two years ago ( http://www.editions-thiele.com/ ). Lots of
interesting things about the Bolex history will be released in a
near future.
Feel free to contact me if you have any interesting stories about
the Bolex.
Happy filmmaking!
Alexandre Favre
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