[Frameworks] All about the Bolex

[Jeff Kreines]

It was an Eclair NPR.  Sweeney Films. (Long story.)

Jeff Kreines
Kinetta
jeff at kinetta.com
kinetta.com

> On Dec 29, 2015, at 8:17 PM, David Baker <dbaker1 at hvc.rr.com> wrote:
> 
> I remember the great photographer and filmmaker Danny Lyon
> saying he shared a film camera with Robert Frank.
> If it was a Bolex they held in common,
> then Lyon as raconteur ( as well as in oeuvre)
> would be one of the few who might rival Robert Frank.
> 
>> On Dec 29, 2015, at 7:05 AM, alexandre at 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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