Small Gauge / Amateur Film Bibliography
The Small Gauge and Amateur Film Bibliography, compiled by Margaret A. Compton, Katie Trainor, Karan Sheldon, Dwight Swanson, and William O’Farrell with the help of other small gauge luminaries, is a project launched in 2000 by the Small Gauge Task Force. Intended as a growing document, it was last revised in 2005 by editor Margie Compton. The entire document may be downloaded for printing, Small Gauge and Amateur Film Bibliography, 2005 (.pdf) -- or may be browsed by section:

History & Criticism
Filmmaking Manuals/Guides
Periodicals
Technology
Miscellaneous

HISTORY & CRITICISM

The Amateur Cinema, Val Randall. Val Randall, 1977. Historical look at the amateur film movement in the UK.

Bell & Howell Company: A 75 Year History, Jack Fay Robinson. Bell & Howell Co., 1982. ISBN 0-675-02555-9

Big as Life: An American History of 8mm Films, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco Cinematheque, 1998. Cinematograph, a Journal of Film and Media Art, Foundation for Art in Cinema, 480 Potrero Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94110. 415 558-8129.
ISSN 0886-6570

Early History Of Amateur Motion Picture Film, Glenn Matthews and Raife
Tarkington in March 1955 Journal of the SMPTE. Reprinted in A Technological History Of Motion Pictures And Television by Raymond Fielding, University of California Press, 1967 and paperback edition 1983.
ISBN 0-520-05064-9

Familienkino. Geschichte des Amateurfilms in Deutschland, Michael Kuball. Rowohlt, 1980. Vol 1 1900-1930, Vol 2 1931-1960.

Film Collecting, Gerald McKee. Tantivy Press, 1978.
ISBN 0-498-01918-7

Foreign Correspondence: The International Super 8 Phenomenon, Toni Treadway, International Center for 8mm Film and Video, Inc., May 1986. Magazine format monograph, 32 pages. A collection of articles and photographs from 21 filmmakers.

Half Century of Film Collecting, Gerald McKee. Gerald McKee, 1993. sequel to " Film Collecting". ISBN 0-9515905-1-0

Histoire de la Camera Cine Amateur, Michel Auer and Michele Ory. Michel Auer, 1979
ISBN 2-85917-011-1

The History Of Movie Photography, Brian Coe. Eastview Editions, Westfield NJ 1981. Pages 162-172, "Movies In The Home," is a notable addition to history of amateur and small-gauge cameras, with numerous illustrations.
ISBN 0-89860-067-7

Home Made Movies: 20 Years of American 8mm & Super 8, curator J.Hoberman.
May 1 - June 30, 1981, Anthology Film Archives, NYC, 1981.

Home Movies: A History of the American Industry 1897 - 1979, Alan D. Kattelle. Alan D. Katelle, 2000. Transition Publishing.
ISBN 0-9654497-8-5
LCCN 00-136151

Home Movies, Malcolm Stuart Fellows, B.A. Malcolm Stuart Fellows, 1973. Drake Publishers Inc., NY.
ISBN 0-87749-569-6

Home Movies and Other Necessary Fictions, Michelle Citron, University of Minnesota Press, 1998.
ISBN 0-8166-3261-8 (hardcover)
ISBN 0-87166-3262-6 (paper)

Jubilee Book: Essays on Amateur Film, European Association Inédits, 1997. RTBF-Passage de la Bourse, B-6000, Charleroi, Belgium.
Tel. 32-71 20 93 50.
ISBN 2-9600153-0-4.

Lovers of Cinema: The First American Film Avant-Garde, 1919-1945. ed,
Jan-Christopher Horak, University of Wisconsin Press, 1995.
ISBN 0-299-14680-4

Morphing History Into Histories: From Amateur Film to Digital Imaginaries, Patricia R. Zimmermann, paper presented at The Getty Research Institute, "The Past as Present: The Home Movie as the Cinema of Record," December 3-5, 1998.

Pathé Premier Empire du Cinéma, Jacques Kermabon. Centre Georges Pompidou, France, 1994, to coincide with a large Pathé exhibition to celebrate the centenary of the Pathé-Frères Company.

A Popular Account of the Development of the Amateur Ciné Movement in Great Britain, Marjorie Agnes Lovell Burgess. S. Low, Marston [1932].

Reel Families, A Social History of Amateur Film, Patricia Zimmermann. Indiana University Press, 1995.
ISBN 0-253-20944-7

Snapshot Versions of Life, Richard Chalfen. Bowling Green State, University Popular Press, 1987. Chapter three, "Cinéma Naïveté: The Case of Home Movies."
ISBN 0-87972-387-4 (hardcover)
ISBN 0-87972-388-2 (paper)

Super 8: The Modest Medium, Jonathon F. Gunter. UNESCO, 1976.
ISBN 92-3101368-8

Technologies of Seeing, Brian Winston. London, BFI, 1996. Interesting historical account of how early amateur film systems were positioned and marketed.

This is an initial bibliography for those interested in learning more about small gauge and amateur film. These categories are not definitive: History and Criticism, Filmmaking Manuals/Guides, Periodicals, Technology, Miscellaneous. A listing may well fit into more than one category. A majority of these listings are still available at libraries and archives. This bibliography is an ongoing project; additions are welcome. Please send suggestions to Katie Trainor, katrainor@gmail.com.

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