Lot Essay
This camera appears identical to M. Demaria's Le Pygmalion camera which was described and illustrated in Trutat's La Photographie Animée. The camera was described for taking and projecting moving pictures.
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Details
Cinematographic camera no. 4
B.F.L, France; 35mm., wood-body, top-mounted brass carry handle, the top stamped B.F.L. BREVETé S.G.D.G. and 4, brass and steel mechanism with intermittent movement, hand crank, feed spindle and take-up spool, brass bound focusing lens -- 160 x 230 x 180mm.
B.F.L, France; 35mm., wood-body, top-mounted brass carry handle, the top stamped B.F.L. BREVETé S.G.D.G. and 4, brass and steel mechanism with intermittent movement, hand crank, feed spindle and take-up spool, brass bound focusing lens -- 160 x 230 x 180mm.
Provenance
The vendor recollects buying this cinematographic camera from Brieux, Paris, in the 1950s.
Literature
Thomas Ganz (1994) Die Welt im Kasten, p. 120, 125
E. Trutat (1899), La Photographie Animée, p. 98-100.
E. Trutat (1899), La Photographie Animée, p. 98-100.
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 15% on the buyer's premium