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Title Beyond the Bolex
Published Collective Eye Films, 2018
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (streaming video file) (95 minutes) : .flv file, sound, color with black and white sequences
Summary When visionary Jewish immigrant Jacques Bolsey invents the Bolex in the 1920's, he puts the first home movie camera in the hands of everyday folks, fomenting a film revolution that still inspires artists to this day. Nearly a century later, Alyssa Bolsey uncovers his long lost archive and journeys to discover the man behind the machine through his personal and professional struggles
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Event Originally produced by Collective Eye Films in 2018
Notes In English with optional closed captioning
Subject Boolsky, Jacques, 1895-1962.
Bolex motion picture cameras -- History
Inventors -- Biography
Motion pictures -- History.
Judaism.
History.
Documentary films.
Judaism
History
Judaism.
history (discipline)
Motion pictures
Inventors
Bolex motion picture cameras
Documentary films
History
Judaism
Genre/Form documentary film.
History
Biographies
Documentary films
Documentary films.
Documentaires.
Form Streaming video
Author Bolsey, Alyssa, film director, film producer, screenwriter, editor of moving image work
Collective Eye Films (Firm)
Kanopy (Firm)