Le Mirographe
Camera
Reulos and Goudeau
Maker
Le Mirographe
Mirographe
ca. 1900
Wood, leather, metal and glass
Overall (camera): 8 3/4 × 2 15/16 × 7 1/2 in. (22.2 × 7.5 × 19 cm)
Overall (magazine): 2 13/16 × 3 1/8 × 1 7/16 in. (7.2 × 8 × 3.7 cm)
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company, ex-collection Gabriel Cromer
DescriptionBlack leather-bound, rectangular, 21mm, hand-cranked motion picture camera with fixed focus lens, two attached external magazines and two spare magazines. The camera magazines likely accepted 50 foot film spools.
Inscriptions Printed on metal, plate affixed to left side of camera: Bté. S.G.D.G., Mirographe [script in red ink], PATENT / Printed on metal in white ink on lens mount on front of camera: Mirographe Bté S.G.D.G., Paris / Stamped in metal plate on back of camera interior: PATENTED, D.R.P., 664
