Pistol-grip Camera
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Title (Dublin Core)
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Pistol-grip Camera
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Article Title and/or Image Caption (Dublin Core)
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Title: Pistol-grip Camera shoots battle scenes
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DESIGNED for filming land, |
sea, and air battles, this
combat movie camera is |
equipped with a gunstock support |
and two-handed pistol grip. It is |
aimed and handled like a sub- |
machine gun, and although it can |
be set up on a tripod, it is in-
tended for hand-held operation.
The original camera built by
Harry Cunningham, Hollywood
cameraman, uses 35-millimeter
film and has a 200-foot magazine,
but those in production will take |
16-millimeter film. The magazine
may be loaded in the open through |
use of a changing bag. Two small
“B" batteries clipped to the belt
supply current for the motor.
Three speeds, 16, 24, and 48
frames a second, and four lenses,
35 and 75 millimeters and six and
10 inches, film all types of action.
Each lens has its own finger-
operated diaphragm control. Film
and magazine are racked in or
out for focusing by a control near
the right-hand grip. Two small
levers move supplementary optics
into place for telephoto lens fields.
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Language (Dublin Core)
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eng
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Date Issued (Dublin Core)
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1943-02
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pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
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78
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Rights (Dublin Core)
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Public Domain (Google Digitized)
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Archived by (Dublin Core)
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Matteo Ridolfi
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Marco Bortolami (editor)
Popular Science Monthly, v. 142, n. 2, 1943
