Hi Alexandre
I remember Swiss Camera, and I went there a few times. Saw a Bolex Pro
100 on display.
But other than that, no interesting stories.
Sounds like a great project.
No English subtitles on the vimeo link, :-(
On Dec 29, 2015, at 7:05 AM, alexan...@bolex.net 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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