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.
Prestwich Patent Kinematograph-Model 5
The Prestwich Kinematograph Model 5 cine camera for 35mm film became Prestwich’s most popular model. It contains two 400 foot internal wood magazines. It is hand-cranked with two eight-frame-per-turn shafts and one single frame shaft. The film drive is by…
Victor Cine and Ultra Cine Cameras
On July 5th 1923, The Eastman Kodak Company of Rochester, New York introduced 16mm Safety Film and one of the first companies to make movie cameras for the new film was Victor Animatograph Co. and their Victor Cine and Victor Ultra Cine Cameras…