apparatus [ap-uh-rat-uhs]
ap·pa·rat·us [ap-uh-rat-uhs] noun
A combination of instruments, machinery, or tools built for a particular purpose. Early cinema: the trade's term for its cameras, projectors, and printers. "The director yelled 'Camera!' and the cameraman began cranking his apparatus."
Hand-cranked motion picture cameras of the silent era, and the stories behind them.
Kudelski Nagra III NP
If you worked in film production anytime from the mid-1960s through to the 1980s, your sound engineer most certainly would have been recording audio on a Nagra. This device is not only an engineering marvel but also a remarkable piece of art — all elegantly integrated into one compact and portable unit…