It’s the week before Christmas 2007 and I’m sitting in ‘Breaking New Grounds’, a coffee shop in the center of Portsmouth, NH, chatting with Tim Merry about a new social technology called the Art of Hosting. My wife went on a weekend gathering 4 months ago and is excited about it. Tim’s a compelling and charismatic fellow, 32 years old and a leader of the Art of Hosting.more...
Even Metro Goldwin Meyer, Twentieth Century Fox or Paramount cannot claim any of their films had taken 50 years to produce, so what follows is perhaps unusual and may be unique in amateur film making.more...
The Hollywood Collectors & Celebrities Show, held several times a year in Burbank, California by Ray and Sharon Courts is unequalled. In addition to movie stills, posters and relevant literature in vast quantities, more than a hundred well known actors from film and television are in attendance.more...
The first modern negative/positive process in the world stands at the center of the second part of this series: Agfacolor. In fact, 2009 could also be celebrated as its “jubilee,” since it was introduced to the German film industry 70 years ago. Unlike the USA and England, where 3-color Technocolor had been available since 1932, filmmakers in Germany had been limited to inadequate and complicated processes.more...
When Super 8 burst onto the moviemaking scene in 1965, it was a breath of fresh air. The format was designed to be as simple as possible – pop a cartridge into the camera, point and shoot. The world had never seen anything like it, and the resulting Super 8 revolution heavily influenced several generations of filmmakers and amateur movie buffs.more...
Berlin-based Fachverlag Schiele & Schön has decided to cease printing our magazine at the end of 2008, after three years of publication.
smallformat -- the international journal for fans of Super 8, Single-8 and 16mm film -- was founded by editor-in-chief Jürgen Lossau in 2005.more...
