Minica toy camera
Category
Photographic technology
Date
1960 - 1980
Materials
Plastic, Glass, Metal
Measurements
70 x 90 x 50 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1524663.1
Summary
Minica toy camera, for 127 film (16 pictures). Manufacturer unknown. Made in Hong Kong. Black moulded plastic body with integrated viewfinder window on top. Shutter release lever on side of lens. Two red windows on reverse. Yellow plastic wrist strap. Blue plastic sliding catch on side to open camera. Markings: "Made in Hong Kong" within plastic moulding on reverse. Inside camera, pressed in the plastic: on left, below winding knob: "Place empty spool here" and on right "Place new film here".
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