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Identifier
MPE-P-006-02_Gregory_&_Barber_filming
Subject—Names
Gregory, Carl Louis; Barber, Fred; Industrial Waste
Subject—Topics
Motion picture equipment; Motion picture cameras; Trade films; Cinematographers
Date Range
ca. 1920
Description
Still from production of an industrial film, “Directing a scene in ‘Industrial Waste,’ a picture made for the Allied Metal Trade.” Carl Gregory is directing and Fred Barber is cranking the Bell & Howell 2709 motion picture camera [Produced by B&H in 1911. Its unique features included the first use of a body machined from cast aluminum, a four lens turret and a rack-over system, giving precise through-the-lens viewing and focusing. It had 400 ft twin compartment magazines [later 1,000 ft]. The film movement was quite different to any that had been before; a 'shuttle gate' clamped on the film and lifted it forward, depositing its perforations on fixed register pins for each advance of a frame. This was in fact the first camera to have register pins holding the film completely steady and in a precise position.] 1920s.
Format
BW glossy photograph; 4.5” x 6.5”
Source
Jonathan Silent Film Collection
Number
MPE-P-006-02