A cardboard box for PIC camera
Category
Photographic technology
Date
1950
Materials
Cardboard
Measurements
50 x 94 x 94 mm
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Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1524668.2
Summary
A cardboard box for PIC camera. Inside there is a printed instruction leaflet together with an added note on inserting the film. The outside of the box is green, white and yellow. The lid says 'PIC Trade Mark The amazing new circular camera takes 16 pictures on a standard 127 film'. The sides of the box read as follows: A; 'Use Kodak Ilford or any other standard 127 film. 12/6 including p.t.' B: 'Enlargements up to 4"x3" 16 pictures from every film' C: as A D: 'The all-round family camera Needs no special knowledge'
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