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CINE PROJECTOR AND FILM WORLD

WELCOME TO

CINERDISTAN

The 9.5mm Vintage Film Encyclopedia is here!

This amazing book, available now, lists all 9.5 titles in (nearly) all languages, links

back to the original 35mm title wherever possible and gives details of cast

and technical staff. More details can be found HERE but anyone

interested can contact the editor direct as follows:-

PATRICK MOULES, SEYMOUR LODGE, HIGH STREET, SEEND, MELKSHAM, WILTS SN12 6NY

Tel 01380-828952/07860-314469 Fax 01380 828737 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

CINERDISTAN

is about cine projectors, organized mainly by film gauge, but with many

digressions into related areas, particularly in the 9.5 mm sections.

It is basically a sort of blog of what I have been doing over the years, organised to a degree into a

kind of archive of (hopefully useful and interesting) information.

The site is currently in a transition phase. There was the Great Software Disaster, after which the programme (Front Page) in which I had built Cinerdistan was no longer usable. After casting about in various ways, the adopted solution was to move everything to Joomla!, which does have an exclamation mark. While most of the text survived, the majority of the pictures did not. This was probably because I had never needed to control the size of my pictures, which often ran into the 1-2mb area, and this tended to give Joomla! indigestion. So, whenever the spirit has moved me over the last few years, I have had my head down, first finding the original pictures, then adjusting their size (and often doing more tidying up work along the way) to suit Joomla!'s delicate digestion, and then feeding them in one at a time. I have had to deal with up to 100 pix on a single page. Usually I have kept the original, higher definition images, so if it really matters to you, you can ask.

So I'm afraid the user of Cinerdistan has to cope with two different styles of picture, sometimes mixed up together. Older ones that survived the transition pop up one at a time and MUST be closed using the BACK arrow on the top left of the screen. The new ones are identified by having a little magnifying glass in the bottom right corner of the thumbnail image. These are trendier, "growing" out of the screen and usually part of a set or group, which can be followed by using arrows etc on the pix. These are dismissed by the "x" button at the bottom right of the pic itself.

There are various ways of using the site and finding stuff. There is a special Introductory Page for Newcomers. If you know a projector name, the Projector Index is for you. There is also a Contents page, which is the sort of thing I believe is called a site map.

If it's a gauge you want, use the links top and bottom of each page or the list below. Each gauge has an opening page which tells you about sections available, with through links. The sections may in turn have their own sub-indices.

If you are an old lag, go to What's New at the top and bottom of each page which will take you to the index page for What's New, from which you can get direct to the latest items but also those from the (relatively) recent past.

There is also an in-built website search function (top right of the screen), which I admit I use myself sometimes.

Sometimes the only way is to go back to the main index page for a gauge or other section or use the site search function.

Below is a list of the main site divisions.

The opening page of each section will tell you what's in there

First, a name-check for FLICKERS magazine, to which I contribute

occasionally.

Home (this page)

What's New

Projector Index

3.2mm

8mm

9.5mm