Best vintage lenses for shooting on 16mm

[Owen A. Davies]

I realize that technically any lens on the market large enough to cover the 16mm circle would work on a 16mm camera, but in terms of vintage cine lenses out there designed specially for 16mm cameras, which ones are your guy’s top picks? Been hearing a lot of good things about Angenieux zooms and the Cooke Kinetals, but I want to know what else is out there and every time I try and search for "lenses for 16mm” I keep getting stuff regarding literally "16mm” lenses, which I find both very frustrating and very funny For my upcoming short film, I’m trying to emulate a very kind of vintage 1930s-1940s look, so I do have that image very much in mind.