Lumiére Cinématographe
Camera
Jules Carpentier
French, ca. 1910
Lumiére Cinématographe
December 28, 1895
Wood, metal and glass
Overall (camera): 7 1/2 × 7 1/2 × 5 in. (19.1 × 19.1 × 12.7 cm)
Museum accession
1978.1651.0005
DescriptionWooden, rectangular, 35mm, hand-crank, motion picture camera, projector, contact printer with fixed lens, single blade shutter in black canvas and brown leather carrying case with 2 projection lenses, 3 wood supply magazines, 5 metal take-up magazines, 2 wood contact print magazines, 2 winders, 4 wood cores, dual-spindle projection arm, strip of nitrate film with round perforations and 2 film winders in a wood crate.
Inscriptions Engraved in white on product plate below lens: CINÉMATOGRAPHE August el Louis Lumiére Breveté S.G.D.G. J. CARPENTIER, Ingénier Constructeur Paris / Engraved in black inside back of camera above crank shaft: J. CARPENTIER PARIS / Stamped in black inside back of camera above crank shaft: 359
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