Aeroscope Cine Camera
'Aeroscope' portable kine camera. Film magazine and crank handle, feet per second meter on side. Patented by Proszynski in 1910.
Patented in 1910 by the Polish engineer K Proszynski, the Aeroscope was the first completely successful hand-held cine camera. Powered by compressed air, it was used by newsreel cameramen and most of the leading film companies from 1912 until the advent of sound. A separate compartment could carry up to 400 feet (122 metres) of 35mm film.
- Materials:
- wood (unidentified) , brass (copper, zinc alloy) , iron , glass , leather and white metal (unknown)
- Object Number:
- 1949-124/1
- type:
- 35 mm ciné camera
