3. Substandard cinema formats
At the same time as the development of professional cinema (silent
and sound), small-format amateur and educational cinema began to flourish.
The public's interest in popularizing cinematographic practice generated
new competition, all the more so as two essential characteristics
for their development applied to reduced formats: the non-flammability
of the support (known as "safety support") and the invertibility of
the emulsions (film whose emulsion makes it possible to directly obtain
a positive black-and-white or color image after a shooting operation,
followed by development "by inversion")
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Standards
In France, the Commission Supérieure Technique de l'Image et du Son (CST), set up in 1944, acts as a technical advisor, official expert and national technical laboratory to the industry. It is also responsible, under the authority of the Centre National de la Cinématographie (CNC), for ensuring compliance with technical standards and specifications, with a view to issuing permits to technical industries (studios, laboratories,...
Organizations
Archives du film du Centre national de la cinématographie http://www.culture.fr/culture/sedocum/cnc-af.htm
Bibliothèque du film (BIFI) http://www.bifi.fr
International Moving Image Society Powered by BKSTS (British Kinematograph,...
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