Prestwich Camera
File:Herbert G. Ponting and his camera - H.G.P. LCCN2009633374.jpg stands behind the Prestwich Model 5 Kinema Camera he used as official photographer for Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova Expedition (1910–1913).{{cite web |url=https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co18516/prestwich-cine-camera-used-by-herbert-ponting-35-mm-cine-camera |title=Prestwich Model 5 cine camera used by Herbert Ponting |publisher=Science Museum Group |access-date=April 2, 2025 }} He incorporated some of the footage he shot into his the 1924 documentary The Great White Silence.]]
Prestwich Camera was a cine camera produced by the Prestwich Manufacturing Company. It was eventually fitted with external magazines capable of holding up {{convert|400|ft|m}} of film.
Several types of "Prestwich Camera" were manufactured in the late 19th century. One of the earliest designs of this type held {{convert|50|ft|m}} of film—more film than any other camera of the age.
According to Carl Louis Gregory,
::An advertisement in Hopwood's "Living Pictures" edition of 1899 offers the "Prestwich" specialties for animated photography -- "nine different models of cameras and projectors in three sizes for l/2-inch, 1 3/8-inch and 2 3/8-inch width of film."
See also
References
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- Coe, Brian. The History of Movie Photography; Eastview Editions, 1981
- Gregory, Carl Louis. [http://www.widescreenmuseum.com/widescreen/early-jan1930.htm "The Early History of Wide Films: Being a Peek into the Past that is Both Interesting and Enlightening"] published in American Cinematographer (January, 1930)
- Toulmin, Vanessa et al. (eds.), The Lost World of Mitchell and Kenyon: Edwardian Britain on Film, London, British Film Institute (2004).
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