Motion Picture Camera
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- Date
- n.d.
- Material
- metal
- Catalogue Number
- 104.41.0021
- Description
- Medium sized black and silver metal motion picture camera. Silver front face has a black bolted label that reads: “MOVIEMATIC MOTION PICTURE CAMERA; VERY BRIGHT SUN ... BRIGHT SUN ... DULL LIGHT ... ; MOVIEMATIC CAMERA CORP. NEW YORK, N.Y. ; MADE IN U.S.A PATS. PEND.” Within the label is a sliding …
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- Title
- Motion Picture Camera
- Date
- n.d.
- Material
- metal
- Dimensions
- 13.5 x 4.1 cm
- Description
- Medium sized black and silver metal motion picture camera. Silver front face has a black bolted label that reads: “MOVIEMATIC MOTION PICTURE CAMERA; VERY BRIGHT SUN ... BRIGHT SUN ... DULL LIGHT ... ; MOVIEMATIC CAMERA CORP. NEW YORK, N.Y. ; MADE IN U.S.A PATS. PEND.” Within the label is a sliding button presumably to change light modes. Above the label is an attached metal piece with a square cut out and a small black lens, around the lens reads: “ACHROMATIC LENS ILEX”. On the camera’s left side in the upper right corner is a silver metal dial with an arrow, above it reads: “MOVIES ; SNAPS”. Attached to the centre of the left side is a moveable metal flap. On the bottom is a hole with screw-like ridges.
- Subject
- Whyte home, photography
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.41.0021
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