A Century in 16mm
The Remaking of Cinema
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 6 January 2026
- ISBN 9780197687161
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages576 pages
- Size 234x156x31 mm
- Weight 975 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 120 b/w illustrations 652
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Short description:
This book explores 100 years of 16mm film, a foundational but largely forgotten technology that had a global impact on filmmaking and film-watching through much of the twentieth century. An affordable, off-the-shelf media technology, 16mm had an outsized impact on media history and set us down the path to our current world of portable technologies and personal media.
MoreLong description:
When the small cameras and portable projectors that used 16mm film stock emerged in 1923, they allowed--for the first time in history--the possibility that anyone could make, show, and watch movies. A foundational but largely forgotten film format that offered a suite of technologies, 16mm was a democratic alternative to the larger and more expensive 35mm technology used by the commercial film industries around the world. With the remarkable ubiquity and utility of 16mm, moving images came to be integral to the way we play, learn, fight, work, and document the world, seeding the path to our current world of portable technologies and personal media.
To mark 16mm's first 100 years, the essays in this book consolidate and catalyse considerations of the uniquely important--but still surprisingly underestimated and understudied--role that 16mm has played in film and media theory, history, and practice. It has long been known that artists and activists relied on 16mm cameras and projectors as tools of experimentation, organization, upheaval, and advocacy. Chapters here revisit these assumptions but also survey its many varied and additional uses: delivering public service messages, promoting corporate public relations, boosting church attendance, preaching good hygiene, instilling efficiency, popularizing political candidates, spreading propaganda, exploring sexuality, and encouraging community dialogue. In short, tis innovative film format facilitated new forms of hobby, play, work, learning and creativity. From the local to the transnational, small gauge filmmaking and showing also became integral to colonialist, imperialist, nationalist, and multi-nationalist institutions and efforts.
In effect, for 100 years now, this uniquely important film format upended and shaped creative, political, governmental, juridical, sexual, educational, recreational, informational, televisual, industrial, promotional, and experimental practices and activities. It was integral to the expansion and evolution of the audio-visual languages that are a common-sense element of our mediated world. Its histories serve as a crucial and telling bridge from past media practices to our present wherein mobile, adaptable, and flexible moving image and sounds continue to thrive.
Table of Contents:
Part I. Technology and Industry
Forests, Fibers, and Film: The International Chemical Industry and the Rise of 16mm
16mm Standardization and Agfa's Strategic Policies in Fascist Italy
16mm Leaves Home: The Ciné-Kodak Special and the Rise of Professional Small-Gauge Filmmaking
16mm's Other Pioneer: Considering Bell & Howell
A Little Steam Locomotive, Right in Your Hands: The Bolex H-16 Camera and the American Avant-Garde
Part II. The Audiovisual State
The Raw Stock Exchange: 16mm Across the British Empire
Modern, Mobile, and Modular: 16mm Projectors and the Promise of Development in India, 1945-1965
Making Progress at the Margins? Segregation and Southern Turpentine on 16mm
Cold War "Useable Knowledge" on 16mm: Julien Bryan, the International Film Foundation, and US Area Studies, 1945-1980
The Perverse Incentive: Small-Gauge Cinema Chain in the People's Republic of Poland
Part III. Circulation and Networks
Moving Amateur Movies: The International Amateur Cinema Network in the 1930s
A "Lusty Infant" Comes of Age: The Allied Non-Theatrical Film Association and the Growth of the 16mm Sector, 1939-1949
Connection and Projection: The Lost Lives of 16mm Kinescope Networks
A Survey of the History of Non-Theatrical 16mm Film Exhibition in Brazil until the 1960s
16mm as North American Experimental Film's Medium Gauge
Part IV. New Sites and Expanded Practices
Beyond Home Movies: Japanese Americans, Amateur Filmmaking, and Camera Clubs in the 1930s
Moving Visions: 16mm Filmmaking as Transnational Missionary Apparatus in Twentieth-Century East Asia
16mm as a Professional Filmmaking Tool: The Case of Women Film-Lecturers
16mm, Postwar Radiology, and the Production of Knowledge
16mm and Football: Teaching and Selling
16mm Smut
Instructions for Experimentation: Multi-Projection Films, Portable Projectors, and Avant-Garde Instruction Sheets
Standards and Institutionalization: 16mm in Political Documentaries of the 1980s in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay
