Williamson 35mm cine camera
- PART OF:
- The Kodak Museum Collection
Williamson 35mm cine camera for 35mm film in internal 300' magazines. Made by Williamson Kinematograph Company Limited in England, 1910. Lens missing; second lens tube fitted above standard; double gate, sperated by one frame. Additional mechanism, incomplete, operating guillotine shutters in each gate. Hand turned; footage and fps dials; critical focusing through film (cap missing). Claw intermittent and two sprockets. 'Binocular' mask.
This is a hand-cranked cine camera for 35mm film in internal 300' wooden magazines. James Williamson started producing films in 1897, and in 1910 he began to concentrate on the manufacture of film equipment.
Details
- Category:
- Cinematography
- Collection:
- Kodak Collection
- Object Number:
- 1990-5036/7868
- Materials:
- wood (unidentified), brass (copper, zinc alloy) and glass
- type:
- cine camera
- credit:
- The Kodak Collection at the National Media Museum, Bradford
