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Note that some equipment must be purchased through a contractor or authorized dealer and cannot be purchased directly by businesses or individuals.
- See individual Equipment and Tools pages for suppliers by product type. (eventually)
- See also: Boston Light & Sound's list of manufacturers here
- See also: 16mm Directory's list of suppliers here
- See also: Film Forever's list of products and suppliers here
Projector repair
→ see also Technical Consultants
- Richard Burgess - rbfilm@msn.com - Eiki and Elmo repair, dealer for xenon bulbs for Eiki and Elmo projectors manufactured by Superior Quartz
- Van Eck (Netherlands)
- S8 and table-top 16mm projectors repair
New Equipment
Audio equipment
- Crown Audio
- Amplifiers
- Dolby
- Sound processors
- JBL Professional
- Speakers
- QSC
- Amps and speakers
Booth tools, reels, splicers, leader, and other supplies
- Boston Connection
- Splicing tape, archival inspection and editing supplies, leader
- Christy's Editorial
- Splicing tape, archival inspection and editing supplies, leader
- CIR
- Splicers for 8mm, Super8, 9.5mm, 16mm, 35mm, 70mm and other film gauges
- Rewind and inspection tables
- Dancan
- Film cans, reels, and cores for 8mm, Super 8, 16mm, and 35mm
- Film leader for 8mm, Super 8, 9.5mm, 16mm, and 35mm
- Splicing tape
- Film testing kits and archival supplies
- Gaylord Archival - A general-purpose archival supply company. Many of the film-related items are from Christy's or STIL.
- Film cans, reels, and cores for 16mm and 35mm
- Storage boxes for 8mm
- Film leader for 16mm and 35mm
- Perforated and unperforated splicing tape
- Acid-free reel bands for 16mm and 35mm
- Acetate test strips and gas-absorbent can liners
- Christy's film cleaner
- Film rulers, inspection gloves, acid-free tape, archival pens, and other archival supplies
- Hollywood Film Co. [CLOSED]
- Goldberg cans
- Light tables
- Manual and motorized rewind benches
- Reels and split reels
- Ultrasonic splicers, hot splicers, and guillotine splicers
- Synchronizers
- Film printers
- Hollywood Film Supplies
- 8mm, S8mm, 16mm, 35mm, 70mm leader
- Splicing and perforation repair tape
- Kinetronics
- Anti-static and cleaning supplies
- Kinoton
- Horizontal inspection benches and film viewers
- Kodak
- Leader in Super 8, 8mm, 16mm, 35mm, 65mm, and 70mm
- Cans and cores for 16mm, 35mm, and 70mm
- Splicing tape and film cement
- Molecular sieves
- Neumade
- Reels and flanges
- Splicers and splicing tape
- Projector port windows
- Hand-crank rewinds
- PEC
- Film cans for 16mm and 35mm film, leader, splicing tape (including S8 size), CIR splicer parts
- STIL Casing Solutions
- Film cans for 16mm and 35mm film
- Tuscan Corporation
- Film cans for 8mm, Super 8, 16mm, and 35mm
- Reels for 8mm, Super 8, 16mm, and 35mm
- Urbanski Film
- Splicing tape, splicers, inspection supplies, reels & cans
Bulbs & lamps
- Osram Xenon lamps
- Ushio Xenon lamps
- Richard Burgess - rbfilm@msn.com - Eiki and Elmo repair, dealer for xenon bulbs for Eiki and Elmo projectors manufactured by Superior Quartz
Lenses
- Schneider Optics [find dealer]
- Projector lenses and accessories [link]
Lens cleaning
Looper rollers
- K3camera
- makes looper rollers that can be bought apart from the loopers themselves
Projectors (new)
→ see also the AMIA Film Advocacy Task Force list of motion picture projector manufacturers
Projector parts
- Richard Burgess - rbfilm@msn.com - Eiki and Elmo projector parts
- Kinoton
- 16mm, 35mm, and 70mm projectors
- Lamphouses
- Sound readers
- McMaster Carr
- General non-film parts and hardware
- RC Classic
- Eiki, Elmo and Bell&Howell projector parts
- Urbanski Film
- Elmo replacement rollers, Eiki worm gears
- Van Eck (Netherlands)
- Belts & projector parts for Eiki Elmo Bell & Howell and many other S8 and 16mm projectors
Screens, masking, and curtains
Software
- Visual Analyzer Free Oscilloscope Software for Windows/Linux useful for checking optical sound focusing for example
- Film-o-sync tool for driving digital audio in sync with a film projector (and soon subtitle lists)
- Belle nuit subtitler open-source tool for creating & videoprojecting subtitles
- BQstit open-source tool for creating & videoprojecting subtitles
Test films
- 16mm (image only) and 35mm test films Boston Light & Sound
- 16mm (image only) and 35mm test films Commission Supérieure Technique de L'Image et du Son (France)
Used Equipment
- Changeovers, a resource provided by the Association of Moving Image Archivists Film Advocacy Task Force
- The Boston Connection, Inc.
- Film-Tech: Equipment and Supplies Wanted/For Sale forum
- Tri-State Theatre Supply
- Wittner Kinotechnik (Germany)