Girl Guide Kodak miniature folding rollfilm camera.
Eastman Kodak Co
Category
Photographic technology
Date
1930 - 1935
Materials
Metal, Glass, Enamel, Card
Measurements
Closed size 124 x 70 x 24 mm
Place of origin
Rochester
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1524628
Summary
Girl Guide Kodak miniature folding rollfilm camera. For 127 rollfilm. Meniscus lens. V.P. Rotary shutter. Brilliant reflecting rotating finder. Metal body with blue crackle finish paint coating. Black bellows. Blue enamelled panel on outside of baseboard with Girl Guide crest in a circle with radial stripes to edge of panel. Markings on shutter: "Made for the Girl Guides Association by Kodak Limited. 99804" and "Girl Guide Kodak".
Provenance
Part of the Fenton Collection. A gift from British Film Institute in 2017. From 1986-1999, part of BFI collection for the Museum of the Moving Image. BFI purchased collection in 1986 from James Fenton's Museum of Photography, Port Erin, Isle of Man 1976-1986
Makers and roles
Eastman Kodak Co , manufacturer