CINOSCOPE, CIRCA 1923

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CINOSCOPE, CIRCA 1923
Syndicat Industriel Cinoscope, Paris; 35mm., hand-cranked, leather covered metal body, two round internal film cassettes with light traps, two crank sockets, film length metre, prong viewfinder, wire frame film support for projection, the mechanism with a double-gang 12-tooth sprocket movement, left sprocket with a twin roller guard, right sprocket has lifting grooved guard, doubles as a film pressure plate, with removable aperture cover, 4-arm Maltese-cross intermittent sprocket movement stamped no. 66'' OR 99'' to allow film exit during projection, the inside of door stamped CONTROLLED NO. 1799 S.I.C., with a C.P. Goerz, Berlin Kino-Hypar f/3 5.5cm. lens no. 568347, in a leather carring case, with original winding handle

Literature

Peter Ariel (1989), Ariel Cinematographica Register, Band 1, no. 255, Band 4, 901-902.

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No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

A dual-purpose camera-projector manufactured for the amateur market. It was marketed in France and Italy at just the time when more compact and easier to use amateur 16mm. and 9.5mm. systems were being lauched, e.g., the 9.5mm. Pathé of 1922-23. These factors may have hindered the success of this camera, and as a result is relatively scarce to today.

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