Prestwich Camera

Prestwich Camera was a cine camera eventually fitted with external magazines capable of holding up convert|400|ft|m of film.

Several types of "Prestwich Camera" were manufactured in the late 1800s. One of the earliest designs of this type held convert|50|ft|m of film -- more film than any other camera of the age.

According to Carl Louis Gregory,

::"An advertisement in Hopwood's "Living Pictures" edition of 1899 offers the "Prestwich" specialties for animated photography -- "nine different models of cameras and projectors in three sizes for l/2-inch, 1 3/8-inch and 2 3/8-inch width of film." "

ee also

History of cinema

References

*Coe, Brian. "The History of Movie Photography"; Eastview Editions, 1981
*Gregory, Carl Louis. [http://www.widescreenmuseum.com/widescreen/early-jan1930.htm "The Early History of Wide Films: Being a Peek into the Past that is Both Interesting and Enlightening"] published in American Cinematographer (January, 1930)
*Toulmin, Vanessa et al. (eds.), "The Lost World of Mitchell and Kenyon: Edwardian Britain on Film", London, British Film Institute (2004).

External links

* [http://www.xs4all.nl/~wichm/cinelisc.html List of Prestwich cameras]