Wilart Professional
Camera
Wilart Professional
First Model
ca. 1919
Metal, leather and glass
Overall: 19 1/2 × 10 1/4 × 14 1/4 in. (49.5 × 26 × 36.2 cm)
DescriptionChrome, black leather-covered, rectangular, 35mm, hand-crank motion picture camera with optical eye level viewfinder, through-camera focus, Voigtländer 45mm f/4.5 lens and chrome magazines. The magazines accept 400 feet of film.
Inscriptions Engraved in brass on product plate above lens: WILART INSTRUMENT COMPANY INC. MANUFACTURERS OF MOTION PICTURE CAMERAS AND ACCESSORIES NEW ROCHELLE - N.Y. U.S.A. / Engraved in white on lens: Special-Cinema-Anastigmatmm f4.5 No.127287 / Engraved in black on the aperture plate: f/ 25, 18, 12, 9, 6.3, 4.5 / Engraved in white on back of camera: WILART INST. CO. NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. PATENTED / Engraved in white on the footage dial on back of camera: 0, 1, 2, 3 / Stamped in silver below magazine on back of camera: 157 / Stamped in silver on top of the magazines: 157
