MOVETTE INC., Rochester, New York

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MOVETTE INC., Rochester, New York
A 17½mm. hand-cranked Movette camera no. 1220 with sportsfinder, lens, hand-crank and leather carrying strap.
Literature
Ariel, Cinematographica Register, no. 1004.
Coe (1981), The history of movie photography, p. 165.
Further details
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Lot Essay

The Movette camera appeared c.1917. According to Coe the Movette system 'represented the first real attempt to simplify film-making for the non-expert with its magazine loading camera and projector, fixed focus and fixed aperture lens which required no adjustment and reasonably economic film costs'.

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