Sources

The following is an in-progress list of the sources I’ve consulted for information in compiling the film stocks dabatase, beyond my own empirical research and notes. Some sources not included are fleeting references in other texts/websites and certainly anecdotal info provided by individual folks I’ve learned from over the years.

MAGAZINES

AMERICAN CINEMATOGRAPHER magazine (1921-1989)
BUSINESS SCREEN magazine: 275 issues (1938-1973, nearly complete)
CINE KODAK NEWS
KODAK PARK BULLETIN (1916-1919)
MOVIE MAKERS magazine

MANUALS/INSTRUCTIONAL PUBLICATIONS

AMERICAN CINEMATOGRAPHER MANUALS: 1st edition (1960 + earlier), 2nd (1966), 3rd (1969), 4th (1973), 5th (1980), 6th (1986), 7th (1993), 8th (2001), 9th (2004), 10th (2013)
CINE-KODAK MOTION PICTURES THE KODAK WAY (1927)
FILMMAKERS GUIDE TO SUPER 8 (1980)
FUJIFILM MOTION PICTURE FILM MANUAL (2011)
HOME MOVIES MADE EASY (Kodak, 1974)
HOW TO MAKE GOOD MOVIES (Kodak, 1938)
THE PROFESSIONAL CAMERAMAN’S HANDBOOK by Verne Carlson & Sylvia Carlson (aka THE PROFESSIONAL 16/35 CAMERAMAN’S HANDBOOK): 1974/75 edition, 1981 edition, 1986 edition

BOOKS/BOOKLETS

A HISTORY OF MOTION PICTURE COLOR TECHNOLOGY by R.T. Ryan (1977)
INDEPENDENT FILMMAKING by Lenny Lipton (1st edition, 1972)
INDEPENDENT FILMMAKING by Lenny Lipton (revised edition, 1972)
INDEPENDENT FILMMAKING by Lenny Lipton (updated and revised edition, 1983)
KODACOLOR INSTRUCTION BOOKLET (1930)
THE KODAK BOOK OF FILM CARE (1992 edition)
LIPTON ON FILMMAKING by Lenny Lipton (1979)
PRESERVING THE MOVING IMAGE by Ralph Sargent (1974)
REEL PEOPLE COLLECTION (1984)
THE SUPER 8 BOOK by Lenny Lipton (1975)
SUPER 8: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY by Danny Plotnick (2020)
YOUR FILM & THE LAB by L. Bernard Happe (1974)

ARTICLES/CHAPTERS

Chapter “The Permanence and Care of Color Photographs” from THE PERMANENCE AND CARE OF COLOR PHOTOGRAPHS by Henry Wilhelm (1993)

“Super 8 to Videotape” by Lenny Lipton, Popular Photography, Feb 1981

OFFICIAL FILM STOCK DATA SHEETS

FUJI DATA SHEETS FROM FUJI WEBSITE
KODAK DATA SHEETS FROM ALAN J. MASSON
KODAK DATA SHEETS FROM KODAK WEBSITE

WEB SOURCES

Film Emulsion Codes file of some film stocks from evertz.com (ca.2012)

Super 8 database at filmkorn

numerous ebay listings

Erik Piil’s DuPont Motion Picture Film Edge Information Chart