This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Bolex" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR(August 2020) (Learn how and when to remove this message)
BolexInternational S. A. is a Swiss manufacturer of motion picture cameras based in Yverdon located in Canton of Vaud, the most notable products of which are in the 16 mm and Super 16 mm formats. Originally Bol, the company was founded in 1925 by Charles Haccius and Jacques Bogopolsky (aka Bolsey or Boolsky), the company's name having been derived from Bogopolsky's name.[1] In 1923 he presented the Cinégraphe Bol at the Geneva fair, a reversible apparatus for taking, printing, and projecting pictures on 35 mm film. He later designed a camera for Alpa of Ballaigues in the late 1930s.
Paillard-Bolex cameras were much used by adventurers, artists, as well as nature films, documentaries, and are still favoured by many animators.
Over the years, notable Bolex users and owners include: Steven Spielberg, Ridley Scott, Andy Warhol, Peter Jackson, Jonas Mekas, Jean-Luc Godard, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, James Dean, David Lynch, Marilyn Monroe, Edmund Hillary, and Mahatma Gandhi[2]
While some later models are electrically powered, the majority of those manufactured since the 1930s use a spring-wound clockwork power system. The 16 mm spring-wound Bolex is a popular introductory camera in film schools.
^"Paillard-Bolex | Science Museum Group Collection". collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk. Retrieved 9 May 2023.
^"Andy Warhol Made Hundreds of Movies During His Career. Here Are the 9 That Changed Film History". 7 November 2018.
46°27′19″N 6°23′24″E / 46.45535°N 6.390115°E / 46.45535; 6.390115 Bolex International S. A. is a Swiss manufacturer of motion picture cameras based...
Digital Bolex was a partnership between Cinemeridian, Inc. and Ienso Canada, an engineering company, to develop the Digital Bolex D16 digital cinema camera...
Bolex Dementia is the second and final album by the 1970s British rock band Hard Stuff. During the recording of the album, two members of the band (John...
lenses. These cameras include the Ikonoskop A-Cam DII (2008) and the Digital Bolex (2012). The Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera (2013) and the Blackmagic Micro...
bolexbrothers (alternatively Bolex Brothers) was an independent British animation studio founded by Dave Borthwick and Dave Alex Riddett in Bristol, UK...
animated ones in a movie, such as in The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb by the Bolex Brothers. Early examples of this technique are Hôtel électrique from 1908...
documentary That Guy Dick Miller, and for her work creating the Digital Bolex cinema camera. Schneider, originally from New York City, is a 2008 graduate...
experimental art circles of the time. She used a hand-held and hand-cranked 16 mm Bolex camera for this as well as many of her later films, contributing to the...
Award for Best Australian Animated Short. The film was shot with a 16mm Bolex camera using completely traditional stopmotion techniques, and edited on...
mixture of both a half dozen 16 mm Bell & Howell Filmo cameras, and 16 mm Bolex cameras to audience members and ask that they capture Beastie Boys performance...
Desert Island Discs for BBC Radio 4, choosing for his luxury item an H-8 Bolex Camera. Spielberg has usually supported U.S. Democratic Party candidates...
film installation in his home. Spending $478 of that on the second-hand Bolex camera "of [his] dreams", Lynch produced a new animated short, but upon...
on a budget of $5,000. He shot in black and white using a spring-wound Bolex camera. The film is an example of guerrilla filmmaking, with Araki shooting...
delivered seltzer water. It was when he hocked his saxophone and bought a 16mm Bolex camera that he began making his own films. In 1986 he met and within two...
Super 8 format, an established practice of Derrickson's repertoire, using Bolex cameras. They prepared by testing the utility of footage in Kodak's color...
both of which firms manufactured Acme products at various times. The 16 mm Bolex camera is often used for amateur and semi-professional single frame filming...
video was easier. As a teenager, he began writing and experimenting with a Bolex 16 mm camera. After years of experimenting with "standard fare", he wrote...
Dick Dorworth, Chris Jones, Lito Tejada-Flores (filmmaker, whose 16mm Bolex camera footage of the ascent was used for the film of the expedition entitled...
Bruce. James Mage was an early pioneer in the 3D craze. Using his 16 mm 3D Bolex system, he premiered his Triorama program in February 1953 with his four...
Fearless Filmmaking at 2015's Slamdance Film Festival. Quote: "Digital Bolex Fearless Filmmaking Grand Prize: Coming To, dir. by Lindsey Haun, DP Spencer...
16 mm cameras continued to be manufactured until the 2000s by the likes of Bolex, Arri, and Aaton. Digital movie cameras do not use analog film stock to...
would take Korine to carnivals and circuses and taught him how to use a Bolex camera. As a child, Korine watched movies with his father, who rented Buster...
Global Information
