Original cardboard box for a transformer for a 'Campro' cine camera/projector.
Category
Photographic technology
Date
1935
Materials
Cardboard
Measurements
45 x 130 x 58 mm
Collection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1524760.2.3
Summary
Original cardboard box for a transformer for a 'Campro' Mk 1 9.5mm cine camera/projector, by Home Cine Cameras Ltd, London. Beige cardboard box with end flap openings. Printed in dark blue ink with a sketch of the transformer on the top and bottom and with the following information printed on the two long sides and one end flap: "Campro - Transformer. For A.C. main 200-250 V. 6V. 0.8 AMP. British Made. Home Cine Camera Ltd, 18 Grays Inn road, London WC1."
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.