Cover and illustrations for a new book on early cinema.
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Seeking cover and interior illustrations for an instructional "how to" book on early cinematography that reprints extremely rare texts.
Backers: 54
Average Pledge Per Backer: $25
Funded: $1,352 of $990
Dates: Feb 9th -> Mar 11th (30 days)
Project By: Darren Németh
Backers: 54
Average Pledge Per Backer: $25
Funded: $1,352 of $990
Dates: Feb 9th -> Mar 11th (30 days)
Project By: Darren Németh
$1,352
current pledge level
Last Updated: March 11 @ 19:10 -0400 GMT
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What is a Motion Picture? 
March 9th - via: kickstarter.com
Here is one of the pages that is in the upcoming How To Film Moving Pictures in the 1910's, the book funded by this Kickstarter. A page from "How To Take and Make Moving Pictures" published in 1914. (Read More)
48 hours left to the stretch goal!
March 9th - via: kickstarter.com
This Crowdfunder is Ending Soon!Less than two days is remaining to the stretch goal! Thank you all for pledging! Can we make it?Information on Future Book PricesThe pledge reward pricing is lower than the list price when it is eventually available... (Read More)
Cover design information.
March 4th - via: kickstarter.com
The cover layout that this Kickstarter is funding is by professional graphic designer Marlene Weisman. For those familiar with silent era film restorations from recent years you may recognize her name because she designed all of the box art for Ben... (Read More)
Forgotten Pioneers of Moving Picture Technology.
February 25th - via: kickstarter.com
Dr. Hans Goetz' Widescreen Experiment A big “Thank You” to all who have pledged! There is less than two weeks remaining to our stretch goal of $1850! Please like and share this campaign to your social media page!! Here is another peek at you... (Read More)
Thank you all! 100% funded! Stretch goal time!
February 23rd - via: kickstarter.com
This very welcome email was in my inbox when I woke this morning.... 102% funded!! With two weeks to go!!Thank you all for pledging to make How To Film Moving Pictures in the 1910's a reality!I didn't expected it to be funded so soon. What a... (Read More)
Ford Optical Company of Denver and the origins of this book.
February 21st - via: kickstarter.com
The cover of "How to Take and Make Moving Pictures," 1914. The How To Film Moving Pictures in the 1910s book that this crowdfunder is funding contains a 240 pages of gently retouched scans from my original items and are presented with additional... (Read More)
By the way.....
February 19th - via: kickstarter.com
My updates here have some grammatical errors, missing words and repeated ones too. This is not how the book will be. The text for this book has been proof read twice.The files were proofread by one person, I made the corrections and then sent... (Read More)
Eberhard Schneider
February 18th - via: kickstarter.com
Moving picture equipment inventor Eberhard Schneider Several early pioneers of early film who are forgotten today are part of this book. One of them is Eberhard Schneider, an immigrant from Breslau, Germany born in 1868. He began in Germany at... (Read More)
Industrialized film production in its infancy.
February 15th - via: kickstarter.com
Universal City studio stage in 1914. If one was thinking of a career as a "camera operator", as they were called, a good time to get into it was the mid 1910's. By then US film studios on the east and west coast invested heavily in meeting the... (Read More)
How to print, tone and tint your own film.
February 14th - via: kickstarter.com
"How To Film Moving Pictures in the 1910's" will show you how an early movie camera worked as well as other topics like the process of printing, toning and tinting a positive print. One of the typical 35mm studio cameras from the 1910s. After the... (Read More)
63% funded in three days!
February 13th - via: kickstarter.com
37% more to go!As I work on the files that make up the book, the crowdfunding goal gets closer and closer.Thank you all who pledged to get this published!26 more days left! Will it be funded???In the meantime, here is a screen shot showing most of... (Read More)
What is inside "How To Film Moving Pictures in the 1910s".
February 12th - via: kickstarter.com
This book shows how to operate a typical motion picture camera from the 1910s era by using original, extremely rare booklets, articles, and pamphlets facsimile reprinted with a number of introductions and notes by myself.It centers around an... (Read More)
50% funded in three days!
February 12th - via: kickstarter.com
This was not something I expected when I started this crowdfunding project.50% funded in three days! Thank you everyone who pledged to make this book a reality! 50% more to go! (Read More)
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