Recommended Links
Atlab Group - This is a very intersting site with a lot of technical information about film and cinema.
Avica Technology - This site is full of technical informaiton on digital cinema, an dincludes descriptions on how it is likely to work in the multiplex world.
BBC SILENT CINEMA SEASON - The BBC has been running a silent cinema season on BBC Four, which has included a series called "PAUL MERTON'S SILENT CLOWNS". This is the supporting site for the series and includes links to a number of other relevant sites and also some downloads of silent films to watch.
Beaming David Bowie - this book is due to be published in August 2005. For the launch of Bowie’s 2003 album, Reality, author Marc John organised a groundbreaking satellite broadcast of a specially produced David Bowie concert which was shown exclusively in digitally equipped cinemas around the world.This marked the first time ever that a live & interactive event had been beamed to cinemas world-wide.
Celebrating West Country Cinemas - This is a fantastic website dedicated to the cinemas of the Westcountry. A forum has now been added for discussion on cinemas in this area. This is definately a site worth keeping an eye on.
Charles Urban,Motion Picture Pioneer:Science, education and discovery in the early years of cinema - This is fantastic website with a vast amount of information. Definately worth a look if you are trying to study the history of the medium
Cine Photo - This is a fantastic website full of cinema related photographs and a large number of weblinks and information.
Cinema Exhibitors Association - This is the website for the CEA who represent the cinema exhibitors. This site is full of lots of useful information, especially relating to the industry in the UK.
Cinema Minima - This site is so fall of content that it is very difficult to write a description for it. It is well worth a look as it is full of cinema news and sources as well. Comes highly recommennded.
Cinema Times (mobile) - This site is so fall of content that it is very difficult to write a description for it. It is well worth a look as it is full of cinema news and sources as well. Comes highly recommennded.
Cinema Tours - There is so much information on this website about worldwide cinemas that your brain will hurt from it all. This is an information packed site that anyone interested in cinema or architecture or both should be visiting. There are a number of similiarities between this site and the excellent Cinema Treasures. This is well worth a visit.
Cinema Treasures - This is an amazing webiste which details thousands of cinemas all over the world and their current status along with lots of other information. It is a database I wish I had created first!
Cinemas Galore - is a website which aims to provide listings of all the cinemas in England and eventually the rest of the UK. Where possible they have provided links so that movie showtimes can be checked out.
Cinemas in Devon and Cornwall - this is a fantastic new site and well worth going to visit. It provides a lot of information about current and past cinemas in the two counties something which has been lacking on the Internet for a while.
Classic Movies - A site dedicated to providing information about classic movies, movie stars, directors, and all the things you love about the Golden Age of Hollywood. This site has a great selection of information.
COLLECTING VINTAGE FILM (MOVIE CINE) CAMERAS and PROJECTORS - a very good site providing cinematographic with lots of information and links nicely laid out. Plus a history of film sizes. This is a fantastic site with a large number of links and information. It is definately worth having a look at.
Dark Screens: Lost Cinemas of South London - This is a fantastic website full of information about former cinemas in South London
DCinema Today - This site is a fantastic source of information relating to Digital Cinema. Highly Reommended.
Digital Cinema Naming Convention - This site is designed to help everyone involved in Digital Cinema exhibition understand how to use the Digital Cinema Naming Convention when naming (or locating) Digital Cinema Packages.
Digital Cinema System Specification - This a direct link to the Digital Cinema System Specification's which were agreed in July 2005. They are published on the Digital Cinema Initiatives website.
Digital-Exhibition.co.uk - This is the website for Simon Walker who is researching Digital Exhibition for his PhD.
Dolby Laboratories - A very good website on Dolby Laboratories who develop and manufacture equipment for the motion picture, broadcasting and music recording industries.
EMF Technology Ltd - EMF Technology is a leading international Technical Conference and Events supply company that offers a true one-stop shop coupled with our experience of Show design and Turn-key equipment provision to ensure your event has maximum impact.
This company are able to do outside projection events - have a look at their gallery for examples.
English Heritage Viewfinder - Do a search for 'cinema' and you will find a whole wealth of cinema photographs.
European Digital Cinema Forum - an organisation which is made up of a number of other cinema organisations. This site provides quite a lot of information on the subject.
Exploding Cinema - this is a great website which is a coalition of film/video makers committed to developing new modes of exhibition for underground media from DIY screenings in all kinds of venues to low/no budget film tours, cable T.V. and the internet. It has a great selection of links and information on projecctors.
Film Center - this is a great site, containing lots and lots of information. Everything from manuals, to charts, parts, screens, film collecting and more. Worth looking at.
Film-Tech - considered to be one of the best technical websites on the net, it provides discussions forums and a huge number of manuals, available to download.
FilmAid International - is a non-profit organization dedicated to using the power of film to promote health, strengthen communities, and enrich the lives of the world’s vulnerable and uprooted. Through the strategic use of film and video, FilmAid communicates life-saving information to mass audiences on critical health concerns, including HIV/AIDS
Flicker - a website where you will find films and videos that transgress the boundaries of the traditional viewing experience, challenge notions of physical perception and provide cutting edge alternatives to the media information technocracy.
Google Maps - Cinemas in London - Google Maps with Cinema information added.
JPEG2000 - All about the JPEG2000 standard. Also has this link to a system about digital cinema. There are a couple of interesting presentaitons on this site as well.
Kodak - has various information on the motion picture industry, with online information.
Light Blue Optics - This website talks about a new type of technology being developed which will allow devices like PDA's to have built in projectors. Definately worth having a read.
London is Free - This site lists all the free stuff going on in London with this specific link going to the section of the website which lists all the free film screenings which are going on.
Mawgrim - is a great site with details of Odeon Cinemas, Cinema Ghosts, Cinema Pictures, details of Projectionist Training and a number of cinema links.
Movie City News - a website full of movie news and links to movie news information. A good site to visit each day for a quick summary of what is in the news.
Projection Training - The purpose of this site is to provide a one-stop-shop for anyone who wants to find out about a career in cinema projection, information relating to the operation and maintenance of projection equipment and training available for both new and experienced projectionists.
Projection Training - The purpose of this site is to provide a 'one-stop-shop' for anyone who wants to find out about a career in cinema projection, information relating to the operation and maintenance of projection equipment and training available for both new and experienced projectionists.
Quantum Digital - was launched in November 2001 and organises live and pre-recorded programming in cinemas using state-of-the-art digital technology.
Reel Streets - A site devoted to British film locations, and places where films were made in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, in the years 1920's to 1980's, by such famous directors as Alfred Hitchcock, Alexander Korda, David Lean, Joseph Losey and Michael Powell, for such wonderful companies as Ealing Films, J Arthur Rank, at the film studios at Denham, Pinewood and Elstree and with such famous actors as Stanley Baker, Dirk Bogard, and Noel Coward, and including such cinema classics as Alfie, The Blue Lamp, Brief Encounter, Ryan's Daughter and hundreds of others which were made on location in the streets of London, Belfast, Birmingham, Manchester and Liverpool in the counties and villages of Kent, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Middlesex, and sometimes on the Islands and Highlands themselves.
Screening Room Map - This fantasitc publication from Pocket Films Guide gives a map and details of many of the screening rooms in London, and now they have updated their website to include the information as well.
Steve's Projection - For pictures of Cinema Projection equipment. The web site has a brilliant screen saver available for download.
Surviving Cinemas - This is a fantastic website which is mainly related to Scottish cinemas, but also includes cinemas from other locations. There is a huge number of photographs of cinemas on the site. Definately worth a visit.
SWICKI - Cinema and Projectionist Search - this is a search engine, just relating to cinema and projectionists, which uses tag clouds simliar to Flickr and other sites.
Terra Media - Cinema Statistics - A really good site full of information about cinema.
The Advanced Projection Manual - The Advanced Projection Manual is designed to provide cinema engineers and projectionists with the necessary technical know-how and hands-on advice so that classic films can be presented the way they were intended to be presented, without compromises with regard to image or sound. Among the core topics are film and sound formats, 70mm film projection and 3-D film projection. The book also includes an introduction to electronic and digital projection technologies.
UK Screen Heritage Network - The UK Screen Heritage Network was formed by a group of museums and archives, funded by the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA), to realise a number of aims.
Victorian Cinema - this is a fantastic site relating to the early part of cinema and includes, the people, machines and whole lot more.
