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d99
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Real old movie camera. Hand cranked, with a smoke stack, and lights with a candle. Has initials EP on front,.below the lens. Any one with information on this camera. Please e-mail me. LAPTOP4034.AOL.com
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hbnewman
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difficult to tell from your description but we are guessing that this is not a movie camera at all but a Nursery (i.e. sold to children) film projector built on the same lines as a magic lantern. We are guessing that the initials EP stand for Ernst Plank, a Nuremberg based producer of Magic Lanterns, Tinplate toys etc.
Plank is a very interesting company to research by the way -they produced the worlds first electric train set and literally flooded the western world with Nursery Magic Lanterns.
If our identification is correct it would originally probably been lit with a small oil lamp and not a candle.
Interestingly enough these projectors are usually 35mm format. (Though we have seen one 9.5mm one with the EP trademark but we think it was made after Schiller's took them over in the 1930s)
Beware if you have any film with your projector it is likely to be non- safety and liable to spontaneously self combust. (bye bye House)
sorry no can do. please post follow ups to this newsgroup. if we can help at all do not hesitate etc.
Please remember we may be wrong. Your description was scanty to say the least. It would be interesting if you were to post a fuller description and perhaps how you came across it.
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