However, the Auto Ciné A and B were produced by Longines in Saint-Imier and the projector by Stoppani in Bern. Charles Haccius invested 250,000 Swiss francs in the company. In 1927, Jacques Bogopolsky imagined a camera for the 16 mm format (Bolex Auto-Cine A,B,C), and created the Bolex society with the help of Charles Haccius, a businessman from Geneva. 5.1 Jacques Bogopolsky and Charles Haccius.
5 Notable models: cameras and projectors.The 16 mm spring-wound Bolex is a popular introductory camera in film schools. While some later models are electrically powered, the majority of those manufactured since the 1930s use a spring-wound clockwork power system. Over the years, notable Bolex users and owners include: Andy Warhol, Peter Jackson, Steven Spielberg, Jonas Mekas, Jean-Luc Godard, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, James Dean, David Lynch, Marilyn Monroe, Edmund Hillary, and Mahatma Gandhi Paillard-Bolex cameras were much used by adventurers, artists, as well as nature films, documentaries, and are still favoured by many animators. He later designed a camera for Alpa of Ballaigues in the late 1930s. In 1923 he presented the Cinégraphe Bol at the Geneva fair, a reversible apparatus for taking, printing, and projecting pictures on 35 mm.
Originally Bol, the company was founded by Charles Haccius and Jacques Bogopolsky (a.k.a. The most notable products of which are in the 16 mm and Super 16 mm formats.
is a Swiss manufacturer of motion picture cameras based in Yverdon located in Canton of Vaud.