Brian Pritchard

Biography

Brian Pritchard began his career at the Kodak Research Laboratories in 1962, working on X-Ray Fluorescence Analysis, followed by measuring Modulation Transfer Function of Films. He then moved to the Motion Picture Sales Department as a technician. In 1969, Pritchard moved to Filmatic Laboratories where he became Technical Director, moving to Humphries Laboratories in 1981 as Technical Director; and then in 1987 moved to Hendersons Film Laboratories. Brian became a consultant in 2002, including a number of years at the National Film Archive. He is the co-author of a book with David Cleveland, How Films Were Made and Shown: Some Aspects of the Technical Side of Motion Picture Film 1895–2015 (2015) and a contributor to the expanded edition of Harold Brown’s Physical Characteristics of Early Films as Aids to Identification (2020) and to the Journal of Film Preservation.