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9780197687178

A Century in 16mm The Remaking of Cinema

by Waller, Gregory A.; Wasson, Haidee
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  • Copyright: 2026-01-06
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Author Biography

Gregory A. Waller is Provost Professor Emeritus in Cinema and Media Studies in the Media School at Indiana University at Bloomington. He served as editor of Film History: An International Journal (2013-2024) and co-directed the Century of 16mm project based at Indiana University. His publications on the history of film exhibition and non-theatrical cinema include Main Street Amusements: Movies and Commercial Entertainment in a Southern City, 1895-1930 and Beyond the Movie Theater: Sites, Sponsors, Uses, Audiences.

Haidee Wasson is Associate Dean of Fine Arts and Distinguished University Research Professor in Film and Media Studies at Concordia University, Montreal. She is author of multiple award-winning volumes, including Everyday Movies: Portability and the Transformation of American Culture and co-editor of the influential book Useful Cinema. She lectures and publishes internationally on film and media history and culture.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors
Acknowledgements

The Futures of 16mm
Gregory A. Waller and Haidee Wasson

Part 1: Technology and Industry
Chapter 1: Forests, Fibers, and Film: The International Chemical Industry and the Rise of 16mm
Alice Lovejoy

Chapter 2: 16mm Standardization and Agfa's Strategic Policies in Fascist Italy
Andrea Mariani and Simona Schneider

Chapter 3: 16mm Leaves Home: The Ciné-Kodak Special and the Rise of Professional Small-Gauge Filmmaking
Louis Pelletier

Chapter 4: 16mm's Other Pioneer: Considering Bell & Howell
Martin L. Johnson

Chapter 5: A Little Steam Locomotive, Right in Your Hands: The Bolex H-16 Camera and the American Avant-Garde
John Powers

Part 2: The Audio-Visual State

Chapter 6: The Raw Stock Exchange: 16mm across the British Empire
Tom Rice

Chapter 7: Modern, Mobile, Modular:16mm Projectors and the Promise of Development in India, 1937-1965
Navdeep Sharma

Chapter 8: Making Progress at the Margins? Segregation and Southern Turpentine on 16mm
Loren Pilcher

Chapter 9: Cold War "Useable Knowledge" on 16mm: Julien Bryan, the International Film Foundation and US Area Studies, 1945-1980
Lisa Rabin

Chapter 10: The Perverse Incentive: Small-Gauge Cinema Chain in the People's Republic of Poland
Konrad Klejsa

Part 3: Circulation and Networks
Chapter 11: Moving Amateur Movies: The International Amateur Cinema Network in the 1930s
Charles Tepperman, Keith M. Johnston, Andrea Mariani, Noriko Morisue, and Simona Schneider

Chapter 12: A "Lusty Infant" Comes of Age: The Allied Non-Theatrical Film Association and the Maturation of the 16mm Sector, 1939-1949
Tanya Goldman

Chapter 13: Connection and Projection: The Lost Lives of 16mm Kinescope Networks
Kit Hughes

Chapter 14: The Expansion of 16mm Film Exhibition in Postwar Brazil until the 1960s
Rafael de Luna Freire, Filipe Brito Gama, and Tiago Bravo Pinheiro de Freitas Quintes

Chapter 15: 16mm as North American Experimental Film's Medium Gauge
Michael Zryd

Part 4: New Sites and Expanded Practices
Chapter 16: Beyond Home Movies: Japanese Americans, Amateur Filmmaking, and Camera Clubs in the 1930s
Denise Khor

Chapter 17: Moving Visions: 16mm Filmmaking as Transnational Missionary Apparatus in Twentieth-Century East Asia
Joseph W. Ho

Chapter 18: 16mm as a Professional Filmmaking Tool: The Case of Women Film-Lecturers
Liz Czach

Chapter 19: 16mm, Postwar Radiology, and the Production of Knowledge
Scott Curtis

Chapter 20: 16mm and Football--Teaching and Selling
Travis Vogan

Chapter 21: 16mm Smut
Eric Schaefer

Chapter 22: Instructions for Experimentation: Multi-Projection Films, Portable Projectors, and Avant-Garde Instruction Sheets
Josh Guilford

Chapter 23: Standards and Institutionalization: 16mm in Political Documentaries of the 1980s in Argentina, Chile and Uruguay
Paola Margulis

Index

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