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We are offered with the following equipment: one 400' Mitchell magazine, high speed motor, Nikon lens mount, power cable and case. Use with the included high speed motor or shoot hand cranked. A hand crank is available separately. The Mitchell Standard high speed camera is capable of shooting from 1 to 120 frames per second and features dual pin registration and 4 pin pull down claws for the steadiest image possible. The camera found its way into the visual effects world sometime in the 1970s as evidenced by the addition of a Nikon lens mount to the stock turret and a built-in video tap. As part of our studio's inventory, this camera worked on many television shows, commercials, and feature films as a visual effects plate camera and for high speed photography. This is an excellent vintage-look collectors camera, or an excellent camera for your next production. The camera is clean and has been recently serviced.

16/35mm spinning mirror reflexed motion picture camera. A favorite camera of Haskell Wexler, Academy Award winning director of photography, the CM3 features: spinning mirror reflex viewfinding, a bright orientable viewfinder, a 3 lens turret, two 400' 35mm displacement magazines, a custom baseplate with iris rods and a two-stage rotating matte box, and a variable speed motor. This camera comes out of the inventory of Zeotrope Studios, Francis Ford Coppola's company.

CinemaGear.com is proud to offer the finest in vintage, antique, and collectible motion picture cameras, lenses, accessories, and historic motion picture equipment. We also have a full machine shop on site and stock a large selection of camera parts for all of your restoration, repair, and modification needs. From the smallest parts to complete shooting packages, explore our unique inventory of motion picture gear.was sold on February 2, 1961 to Revue Studios, later Universal Television. Revue Studios was a major producer of network television series beginning in 1943, creating such classic TV shows as Leave it to Beaver , The Jack Benny Program , Alfred Hitchcock Presents , Wagon Train , The Adventures of Kit Carson , and The Virginian , among many others. In 1966 Revue Studios was folded into Universal Pictures and became Universal Television. Universal Television's BNC cameras were converted to Pellicle Reflex sometime in the late 1960's and were the mainstay of television production into the 1990's. BNC #291 could have worked on any of Universal's many popular television shows produced in this period, including Kojak , McCloud , Rod Serling's Night Gallery , The Six Million Dollar Man , The Rockford Files , Buck Rogers in the 25th Century , Quincy, M.E. , Night Rider , and Battlestar Galactica . After Universal sold off their camera department, BNC #291 found its way into the hands of a Hollywood director of photography where it was used to shoot several feature films. The camera was put into storage around 2000 and has come into our collection to be cleaned and restored.

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