Kinema camera

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Kinema camera

Details

Kinema camera Newman & Sinclair Ltd., London; 35mm., duraluminium body, hand-cranked mechanism with replica hand-crank, two internal 400ft. wood and metal magazines, footage gauge, with a Taylor Hobson Cooke Anastigmat f/2 1½ inch lens no. 83649

Literature

http://www.cookeoptics.com/cooke.nsf/history/1920

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Lot Essay

The Kinema Camera was an early design by Arthur S. Newman created before his successful double spring-wound models. It was made in very small numbers one of which was used to document the Everest expeditions of 1922 and 1924. Captain John Noel's Newman Sinclair used on Everest exists in the collection of the National Media Museum in Bradford.

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