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.
Urban “Junior” Bioscope Cinematographic Camera
The Charles Urban Trading Company introduced its new “Junior” or Model A Bioscope Camera in its August, 1907 Catalog. Described as a “Marvellous Value” and it stated “every Exhibitor should possess his own Animated Picture Camera”…