About Our Founder

Bill Reiter is the Founder, President and Curator of Cinema Antiques. He has been an active collector of cinema equipment antiques and involved in the motion picture business for over 50 years.

He is dedicated to the Rare, Artifact-Sculpture, Authentic, Certified, Collectible, Vintage, Displayable and re-purposed Equipment Antiques of the Hollywood Film Studio and International Motion Picture Industry.

Some of his accreditations are as follows:

 

  B.A. (Diplomate, Cinema, City University of New York),

– D.P. (Director Of Photography), 

– S.O.C. (Member, Society of Camera Operators),

S.M.P.T.E. (Member, Society Of Motion Picture And Television Engineers),

– S.I.A.V.T. (Diplomate, Sony Institute of Applied Video Technology, Hollywood)

– PANAVISION (Gen Mgr Of The First Miami Panavision Camera Facility: IDI)

– UNIVERSAL STUDIOS  (Official Cinema Antiques Supplier)

– 21st CENTURY FOX STUDIOS (Official Cinema Antiques Supplier)

– CBS ENTERTAINMENT (Official Cinema Antiques Supplier)

– CINEMATHEQUE FRANCAISE, PARIS (Cine Antique Technical Consultant)

– PATHE FILM FOUNDATION, PARIS (Cinema Antique Technical Consultant)

– PETERSON AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM (Cinema Antique Technical Consultant)

– SCIENCE MUSEUM, LONDON (Cinema Antique Technical Consultant)

– INSTITUTE FOR MEDIA ARTS (Board of Directors)

– USA FILM SCHOOL (President)

– UNITED STATES AIR FORCE (Official Cinema Antiques Supplier)

– THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME (Official Cinema Antiques Supplier)

– MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON (Official Cinema Antiques Supplier)

– BACA Film Festival, (Certificate of Merit & Official Entrant, Brooklyn New York)

– FILMMAKING  INSTRUCTOR, former, (City University of New York)

– DALLAS INT’L FILM FESTIVAL (Supporter & Official Cinema Antique Supplier)

– DALLAS FILM SOCIETY (Supporter & Official Cinema Antique Supplier)

— Industry Recognized “Distinctive” Antique Dealer

– ACADEMY MUSEUM OF MOTION PICTURES (Founding Supporter)

– DECORATIVE ARTS SOCIETY (DECASO)  (Founding Member)

– SILENT CINEMA SOCIETY (Member)

– SOCIETY FOR CINEMA AND MEDIA STUDIES (Member)

– CAMERA PROP SUPPLIER (NETFLIX Series “House Of Cards”)

– CINEMA ANTIQUE SUPPLIER (Oliver Stone’s Film “Born On The 4th Of July)

– RALPH LAUREN CORPORATION (Cinema Antique Consultant)

– HISTORICAL VEHICLE ASSOCIATION (Member)

– NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY (Official Cinema Antiques Supplier)

– REPRESENTED BY SAATCHI ART GALLERY (for Component Art & Sculptures)

– FINANCIAL TIMES OF LONDON (Featured Article on Cinema Antiques, 9/17)

 

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