[Frameworks] All about the Bolex

[Steven]

Hi Alexandre

I remember Swiss Camera, and I went there a few times. Saw a Bolex Pro 
100 on display.


But other than that, no interesting stories.

Sounds like a great project.


No English subtitles on the vimeo link,  :-(
> 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
>>
>> <bolex_reporter_1966_16.pdf>
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