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.
Etablissements A. Bourdereau CINEX
In 1922, Bourdereau introduced the first Cinex 35mm camera It was presented to the Société française de Photographie on December 13, 1922. The ORIGINAL Cinex was a robust design, yet very simple. It contained…