Prestwich Camera was a
cine camera
A movie camera (also known as a film camera and cine-camera) is a type of photographic camera that rapidly takes a sequence of photographs, either on an image sensor or onto film stock, in order to produce a moving image to project onto a movie sc ...
eventually fitted with external magazines capable of holding up of film.
Several types of "Prestwich Camera" were manufactured in the late 19th century. One of the earliest designs of this type held of film—more film than any other camera of the age.
According to Carl Louis Gregory,
::''An advertisement in Hopwood's "Living Pictures" edition of 1899 offers the "Prestwich" specialties for animated photography -- "nine different models of cameras and projectors in three sizes for l/2-inch, 1 3/8-inch and 2 3/8-inch width of film." ''
See also
History of cinema
The history of film chronicles the development of a visual art form created using film technologies that began in the late 19th century.
The advent of film as an artistic medium is not clearly defined. However, the commercial, public scree ...
References
*Coe, Brian. ''The History of Movie Photography''; Eastview Editions, 1981
*Gregory, Carl Louis
"The Early History of Wide Films: Being a Peek into the Past that is Both Interesting and Enlightening"published in American Cinematographer (January, 1930)
*Toulmin, Vanessa et al. (eds.), ''The Lost World of Mitchell and Kenyon: Edwardian Britain on Film'', London, British Film Institute (2004).
Movie cameras
{{film-tech-stub