Home Movie Cameras 1960s

Paris france shopping 1960s 8mm movie film camera with changeable lenses flea market british actor dirk bogarde portrait 1969.

Scary movie guy with no hand. The two cameras below were purchased on ebay in excellent condition for a total cost of only 1298. 16 mm film is an historically popular and economical gauge of film. 16 mm refers to the width of the film.

Other common film gauges include 8 and 35 mmit is generally used for non theatrical eg industrial educational film making or for low budget motion pictures. Making home movies using small 8mm cine cameras was a popular hobby in this era and weddings were always an event to be filmed as a visual record of a brides special day. A home movie is a short amateur film or video typically made just to preserve a visual record of family activities a vacation or a special event and intended for viewing at home by family and friends.

Each image constitutes a framethis is accomplished through an intermittent mechanism. Nov 22 2019 all of the movie cameras on this board are part of my personal collection. The beaulieu s2008 is an example of a french made movie camera of the era.

If you are interested in starting a collection of your own vintage movie cameras can be purchased very inexpensively. Originally home movies were made on photographic film in formats that usually limited the movie maker to about three minutes per roll of costly camera film. See more ideas about movie camera home movies camera.