Electric Gyroscope Kinematograph camera no. 103
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Electric Gyroscope Kinematograph camera no. 103

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Electric Gyroscope Kinematograph camera no. 103
Electric Gyroscope Kinematograph Camera Co. Ltd., England; 35mm., mahogany-body, brass fittings, the top with pictures-per-second and footage counters and reflex viewfinder, two side-opening doors, one with plates ELECTRIC GYROSCOPE KINEMATOGRAPH CAMERA CO. LTD.,. SERIAL NO. 103. BRITISH PATENTS. 3798 1908. 22985 1911. 23505 1911. AND ALL PRINCIPAL FOREIGN COUNTRIES. FOREIGN PATENTS FRANCE S.G.D.G. GERMANY ITALY & BELGIUM. PATENTS ARE BEING APPLIED FOR IN AMERICA AND IN OTHER CONTRIES and revealing gear mechanism and electric resistance, motor and plate USE A 16 VOLT BATTERY FOR DRIVING THIS CAMERA, the other containing a 200ft. mahogany film magazine and claw intermittent movement; the front with lacquered-brass gyroscope, twin handles, viewing lens and a Goerz Hypar f/3.5 2 inch taking lens no. 390608
Literature
c.f. Brian Coe (1981), The History of Movie Photography, p. 86. David Samuelson, 'The First Hand-holdable 35mm Motion Picture Camera' in Operating Cameraman, Fall/Winter 1996/1997 and at https://www.soc.org/opcam/09_fw9697/mg09_handcam.html
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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.

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