The Filmmaker's View: 100 Years of ARRI

In 1917, August Arnold and Robert Richter rented a small store, formerly that of a shoemaker, in Munich and set up shop as a film technology firm, named, from the first two letters of each surname, ARRI. They began with one product: a copying machine they built on a lathe that Richter had received as a Christmas present from his parents. This beautifully illustrated volume celebrates the firm’s first century, showing how it evolved from an equipment rental shop into the manufacturer of the ...