Tag Archives: movie

a night at the movies

Posted on September 8, 2025 by Robert

Toronto. Our then movie expert, the late Robert Gutteridge discovered a rare Edision c1897 movie projector on display in a small theatre up in Beaverton on the eastern shore of Lake Simcoe. Bob writes in a copyrighted article, “Just over … Continue reading →

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moving shadows at home

Posted on August 8, 2025 by Robert

Toronto. As mentioned in an earlier post, in issue 25-1 we have a collection of reprints from exchange organizations. This one originally appeared in sixteen frames – the journal of the Movie Machine Society (MMS). In “The Vitak Story”, Alan … Continue reading →

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mythography

Posted on June 23, 2025 by Robert

Toronto. When I was a kid, I spent a few weeks in the bush with my dad’s brother. My uncle mentioned his horse was skittish around loud noises so he returned to Ontario. “Like gunshots?”, I naively asked. My uncle … Continue reading →

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Evangeline, 1913 Movie

Posted on February 7, 2025 by Robert

Toronto. You likely think of Hollywood when you think of films/movies but we also produced movies beginning with Evangeline in 1913. In issue 21-2, (Sep.Oct 1995) Ev devoted a number of pages to the centenary of motion pictures in Canada,  His … Continue reading →

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a sad and tragic ending

Posted on January 22, 2025 by Robert

Toronto. Every so often editor Ev Roseborough would reprint an article from others he felt would be of interest to PHSC members. In 20-5, he reprinted an article found in the PHSNE Journal. The article, by Jack Naylor, is titled, … Continue reading →

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by any other name …

Posted on November 23, 2024 by Robert

Toronto. One of my co-workers commented years ago that a client (he was in the debt consolidation business at the time) had given him a new ‘Leica’ and the accessory lenses. Well, that sparked my interest. My family visited his … Continue reading →

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if it moves, shoot it ….

Posted on November 21, 2024 by Robert

Toronto. The old military expression was “If it moves salute it; fi it doesn’t, paint it” In this post I had in mind movie cameras. Our coming auction this Sunday has a wealth of lots – camera, lenses, movie cameras, … Continue reading →

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origami and photography

Posted on November 20, 2024 by Robert

Toronto. You may wonder what on earth the Japanese art of paper folding has to do with our favourite pastime – photography. Glad you asked. Origami takes a flat object like a sheet of paper and in a few folds, … Continue reading →

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what the heck is this camera

Posted on August 29, 2024 by Robert

Toronto. The other day Les Jones dropped me a note about a strange movie camera. Was it used to take movies? Or to take a shot one frame at a time with enough room for hundreds of shots on a … Continue reading →

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tish, tash i was taking a movie

Posted on August 9, 2024 by Robert

Toronto, … with apologies to Bobby Darin. Roy Tash was a well known Canadian movie maker. His  photo was a covershot on the early spring of 1989 issue 14-5. Roy passed away the previous year (1988) just before the PHSC … Continue reading →

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