Details
CINEMATOGRAPHIC CAMERA, CIRCA 1909
E.F.Moy Ltd., London; 35mm., hand-cranked, mahogany body with brass strap re-enforcing, footage counter, crank handle, leather carrying strap, two internal 400ft wooden film magazines, single and multiple frame crank sockets, two 32-tooth sprockets with three wooden guard rollers to each sprocket, rack and pinion geared mechanism in an eccentric groove, in rotating cylinder activating a back and forth movement of the claw, variable shutter, direct through the film focusing, interior plate stamped MOY & BASTIE'S PATENT NO. 4534 1909, with a brass bound Taylor, Taylor, Hobson Leicester Cooke Cinematograph 2-inch f/3.5 lens with rack and pinion focusing
E.F.Moy Ltd., London; 35mm., hand-cranked, mahogany body with brass strap re-enforcing, footage counter, crank handle, leather carrying strap, two internal 400ft wooden film magazines, single and multiple frame crank sockets, two 32-tooth sprockets with three wooden guard rollers to each sprocket, rack and pinion geared mechanism in an eccentric groove, in rotating cylinder activating a back and forth movement of the claw, variable shutter, direct through the film focusing, interior plate stamped MOY & BASTIE'S PATENT NO. 4534 1909, with a brass bound Taylor, Taylor, Hobson Leicester Cooke Cinematograph 2-inch f/3.5 lens with rack and pinion focusing
Literature
Brian Coe (1981), The History of Movie Photography, p. 82.
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