Plug your ears as Joe Rinaudo, founder of Silent Cinema Society—plays his American Fotoplayer in this segment from Huell Howser’s California Gold television program:
This machine is in Joe’s living room. Think the neighbors mind?
Learn more about the Fotoplayer.
Read about Joe Rinaudo and his passion, SCAT—Silent Cinema Art & Technology.
Joe Rinaudo demonstrates threading a 1909 Powers Cameragraph Motion Picture Machine in this video produced by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
This video shows the process of threading, projecting, and changing reels of the 1925 Phantom of the Opera, restored and hand-cranked by Joe Rinaudo on his Powers Cameragraph; and glass lantern slide presentation by Gary Gibson, also on the Cameragraph.
Shown at the Nethercutt, October 2013. Special guest Carla Laemmle, 104, niece of Universal Studios owner Carl Laemmle, was in the audience…and in the film.
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