Cinematographic camera

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Cinematographic camera
Lucien Prévost, Paris; 35mm., black leather-covered wood-body, catch release for hinged top section with three internal 400ft. aluminium film magazines, original crank handle, film and frame counters with silvered scales, double-claw movement, sprung glass pressure plate, variable shutter, 2-sprocket 24-tooth mechanism, internal spare lens holders, with brass plaque engraved LUCIEN PRéVOST INGéNIEUR-MéCANICIEN, 54 RUE PHILIPPE-DE-GIRARD. PARIS. MéCANIQUE DE PRéCISION MACHINES CINéMATOGRAPHIQUES, with a Bausch & Lomb Optical Co., Rochester Tessar 1 inch 50mm. lens no. 3168968, in a leather carrying case

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Lot Essay

Buster Keaton humorously uses a similar camera in the 1928 M.G.M., film The Cameraman. However the camera was already outdated by the time the film was produced, and the joke involves Keaton using a Prévost camera alongside Harold Goodwin who uses an Akeley, which was one of the most advanced newsreel cameras at that time.

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