A Pair of camera movements.

1900 and 1909

Price on request


This is extremely rare. I have never seen an early film transport movement on display in any museum in the world. It is always the whole camera that is being shown. One never gets to see what they look like inside nor do we ever get to see how they work. Museums never let us touch the display cameras. Here is a pair that you can crank and show your friends and clients. If there were such a thing as camera genealogy this would be a matched pair of father and son movements. 1900 for the Darling and 1909 for the Williamson.  These are two fine examples of the earliest camera mechanisms.


Both of these cameras were manufactured a hundred years ago in the earliest days of film production. The patent on the Williamson movement was first applied for October 15, 1908 and published January 21, 1909.  It is listed as an "improvement" in the patent application as it has some slight changes to the earlier Darling Duplex Model M Movement of 1900.  Here are pictures of both pull down claw actuators so you can easily see the difference. The simpler one is the newer one.

 

Home    Navigator    Gallery    Contact Info

Previous Page      Next Page