There is a forward and
reverse drive mechanism on the camera's left side. There is a place on the
camera left side to mount a drive mechanism that would make it possible to
crank the camera from a remote crank location through a drive belt. I have
read of a period in the very early days of "topicals and actualities"
where someone made a 35mm motion picture camera that would fit inside an 8
by 10 glass plate view camera. This was done to camouflage the movie
camera from the sight of villainous Patent War thugs who had a habit of
destroying movie cameras that weren't approved by the Patent Trust. It was
also done to sneak movie cameras into an events and steal images that a
rival movie production company had purchased the exclusive rights for.
This camera certainly would fit inside an 8 by 10 view camera where none
of the regular movie cameras of the period could.