Russell Motion Picture Camera: Museum Object and Cultural History
Russell Motion Picture Camera: Date made: ca. 1915. date made: ca 1915. date made: ca 1918.
The object in the museum catalogue
Bakelite housing for a Russell Motion Picture Camera. The Motion Picture Specialty Company, of New York, introduced this camera in 1918, apparently naming it for the firm’s president, Thos. Russell Brown.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date made: ca. 1915
- date made: ca 1915
- date made: ca 1918
- Object Name: camera housing
- Measurements: overall: 238 mm x 197 mm x 86 mm; 9 3/8 in x 7 3/4 in x 3 3/8 in
- Measurements: overall: 9 1/2 in x 7 7/8 in x 3 1/2 in; 24.13 cm x 20.0025 cm x 8.89 cm
- ID Number: 1981.0976.11
- catalog number: 1981.0976.11
- accession number: 1981.0976
- Credit Line: Gift of Union Carbide Corporation
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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