That's really incredible! Especially showing off each of the individual features and peculiarities (the mattes, the fading mechanism, the rackover, the movement)
From some comments below I see that Sam has passed away. Does anyone know if he had family that may know of the whereabouts of his old movie camera collection?
Sam, are you the collector that purchased my grandfather’s (Gore) movie camera from his daughter, my mother? In a search on my grandfather I saw a letter from Wes Lambert to you about my grandfather’s camera.
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Thanks for the tour! My buddy was trying to describe this. The video and camera example blew my mind. Rack over makes sense now. The developing must be insane.
Thanks for the video. A couple of points, however - film entering the gate threads under the top roller, forms a loop, then down through the gate, forms a bottom loop, then over the bottom roller, and under the next one along; a little clearance should be allowed to avoid the film loop rubbing up against the floor and ceiling.
Many thanks for your video. I have had experience in threading up a Mitchell BNC, but have never had opportunity to look at Mitchell's VistaVision camera, other than by photographs. In these, film travels horizonally through the gate and it cofuses me that the magazine feed and take up on either side seem set vertically in the normal way. Is it possible that the film is twisted 90 degrees twice en route?
Hey Sam I recently acquired a collection of Mitchell cameras and equipment. You clearly seem to know quite a lot about em if you could help me get more information about them that’d amazing.
This type of content is what makes me hate people who take 100 selfies a day BEGGING for verification from others that they're good enough. Its strange because I wouldnt want to live in the 1800s, but I love the idea of humble people. I guess you cant have both.
Sir. In the age of digital, where you can shoot anything on a digital cinema camera with dynamic range bigger than the planet, and add any classic film look you desire, making it look very cheap, fake and unoriginal, why can't we just shoot on the medium we like the look of? I mean, if I had the budget and time for a project and I wanted to make a 20s era silent horror noir film, Id shoot with a 20s camera, even the first ever which I suppose would be colossal in size and hardest to handle, but not if there is less camera tracking and more of looking around when necessary and you can always have tracks laid out for movement. People still did it back then out of the need and they made excellent films that stand out even today, not just for the look and flicker and low frame rates, but also the performances, lighting, direction and the sets. Just beautiful work. The only problem is, they dont make those cameras and sadly they dont even make ANY film cameras. There have been fans 3D printing old camera parts to repair their broken cameras and one fan from Asia actually 3D printed a whole 8mm camera. This only proves how companies have left us with no other option but to build our own and I think at some point, personally building something would be better than relying on companies. But its a lesson for those companies who have seized production, just to let digital in. You cant stop digital, but you can be open minded towards older equipment. Why have a lot of modern people preferred ease and comfort over originality. I am not saying everyone should shoot on certain cameras, they dont matter, the person behind them does, but that person behind them is making fake choices. It may not be possible to shoot every single film with old equipment, but that stuff was built like tanks, as they say and if rebuilt or repaired can work perfectly well. I think people forget that art is boundless and you can paint on paper, canvas, glass or digitally, it doesnt matter. When people say medium doesnt matter, why do they always say it when its against Film? Thats the hypocrisy. I say it for all mediums. Shoot any you like. There are internet articles trying to prove why digital fake look is chosen, considering costs and hassle, (I say fake when they try to make it look like film and some achieve it). I dont know why im posting such a big comment, but as a lover of art, I do not think people should be restricted to only modern equipment, just because its faster, easier. You could also choose to shoot on these old cameras to get the real look. Art can never be redefined to "only use what's easy", that's very unprofessional in my view, unless the budget and deadline doesn't allow.
Haven't you ever watched a movie on Turner Classic Movies? Almost all of those people are dead. Nothing strange about it at all. As the stockpile of high-quality video increases for each generation that comes along behind us, more and more of them will be watching movies and videos featuring people who are no longer living. I'm guessing you are under....40 or probably even 30. Just wait until life goes into hyperdrive, and you wake up one morning to find you are 65 or 70 years old, and you say to yourself, WTF just happened?
Without Mitchell and these types of cameras we would never have been entertained with the magnificent black and white images projected onto the huge screens via an arc lamp. Thank you Mr Mitchell and Mr Eastman.
I came here after discovering that this camera was used by the British troops during WWI - in the battle of the Somme, to be exact. Thanks for the precious info.
Thanks for sharing your enthusiasm and knowledge. My Father was a collector of antique cine cameras, most of them went to a museum but he left me a few, one of which is a Prestwich just like this one in beautiful condition. I would love to speak to you about it if possible, I do think about its future and how and where it should be preserved for future generations.
Amazing how this early camera was so technically advanced. Such craftsmanship! Also wondering about the film stock. Looks like the sprocket holes of the film stock and frame aspect ratio and size, for this camera matches “today’s” film stock - which I assume you are using in your demo. ...Rowby.
This unit has no side finder from what I can see. How do you pan and tilt without being able to frame? Thanks for demonstrating this camera. They were widely used in the early days. Ive seen many pictures of them in use.
