Lot Essay
This camera bears remarkable internal similarities to Moy's Gyro camera of 1912 which Coe describes as 'one of the first cameras to have an integral electric drive'. The Electric Gyroscope Kinematograph Camera Co. Ltd. was registered in 1912 and this camera would appear to have been made by Moy for the company to the same specification as their own camera. The Moy was described by Samuelson as: the first hand-holdable camera; the first electrically driven 'production' camera and the only one for sixty years to have the motor placed internally; the first camera to have internal displacement type film magazines with a preformed loop; the first stablized camera; the first reflex mirror camera.