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Cunningham Combat camera model C no. 28
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Cunningham Combat camera model C no. 28

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Cunningham Combat camera model C no. 28
American Camera Company, Hollywood, USA; 35mm., green-painted metal body, top-mounted viewfinder, twin side-mounted grips, integral shoulder mount, with a four lens turret holding a Bausch & Lomb Baltar 35mm. f/2.3 lens no. UF7138, a Bausch & Lomb Baltar 75mm. f/2.3 lens no. UF5605 and another lens; battery cable, green-crackle film magazine, in maker's fitted case
Literature
Barry Salt, 'Film Style and Technology in the Forties' in Film Quarterly, Autumn 1977, pp. 46-57.

Ray Zone, 'Vintage Instruments' in American Cinematographer, January 2003, p. 104
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Lot Essay

Salt states (p. 46): 'The only new 35mm camera produced in any numbers in America during the forties was the Cunningham Combat camera. This lightweight (13lbs.) camera was especially designed for front line use.' Zone quotes Steve Gainer, Curator of the ASC Museum, as saying 'the Japanese had a machine-gun-style camera...prior to the war. Upon hearing about this camera, or capturing one, John Ford's unit in the South Pacific employed [Gregg] Toland's technical knowledge to manufacture their own version. It has a four lens turret and the body is made of magnesium alloy. It's very light'

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