Author Archives: Robert

Quarter Million Dollar Flight of Fancy

Toronto, Thursday, July 11, 2013. Thanks to the Toronto Star and various local television stations, my curiosity has been answered. Back on May 27, 2013 I discovered what looked like wings hanging from the rafters in the hall at the … Continue reading

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Robert Gutteridge Friday, July 12, 2013

TORONTO, July 14, 2013. We learned today that Robert W Gutteridge passed away last Friday at the Scarborough General Hospital. Bob joined the PHSC in 1997 and was our resident authority on optical toys and early cinema in Canada. He … Continue reading

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Newsletter 13-3

Editor David Bridge rounds up some juicy stories for this month: From left: Cover of 13-3. Trunk show, auction this fall and PHSC honours Harry Joy. Book and journal reviews. Revisiting the fireman daguerreotype. A dummy cheap infra-red plant camera. … Continue reading

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Good night, Carl

Toronto, July 7, 2013. Those of us familiar with German optical firms recognize Carl Zeiss Jena and its products as famous since the late 1800s. The Tessar and Biotar lenses are immediately known to collectors and users of fine equipment. … Continue reading

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London before 1927

London, May 11, 2013. Thanks to ex-pat Stan White who sent me a note regarding a London Evening Standard article and images from a 1926-7 movie of London, England. The movie uses the experimental Friese-Greene [Frisse-Greene] process. The movie was … Continue reading

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Henri Cartier-Bresson: Living and Looking

New York, June 20, 2013. Ian Ransberry of the Niagara School of Imaging sent this item along via Bob Lansdale. The Lens column of the New York Times reports on the recent discovery of interviews with photographers well known in … Continue reading

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3rd Annual Trunk Sale – July 14, 2013

TORONTO, June 21, 2013. As our Toronto presentations program breaks for summer, we announce our third annual summer event, The Larry Boccioletti Memorial Trunk Sale held outside the Soccer Centre as in the past two years. Click here or on the … Continue reading

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Antique Photographica – The Collector’s Vision

TORONTO, June 12, 2013. Bob Lansdale mentioned that his colleagues Bryan and Page Ginns have recently published a selection of articles in a book titled Antique Photographica, The Collector’s Vision. Both Amazon USA and Amazon Canada have the book available … Continue reading

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Boris Spremo C.M. to be inducted into the CNHF

TORONTO, June 12. 2013. I get the Toronto Star delivered and its almost always here but I missed a paper last week and also the article on Boris being inducted into the Canadian News Hall of Fame. Thanks and a … Continue reading

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Baltzley Photograph Spotted

TORONTO, May 31, 2013. Member and Image Curator Ashley Cook dropped me an email to say she spotted a Baltzley in the Early Exploration Photographs in Canada exhibition running until the end of September at the National Gallery of Canada … Continue reading

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