Selig Standard motion picture camera

OBJECT TYPE: Camera
MANUFACTURER: A. Schustek
NATIONALITY: American
PLACE MANUFACTURED: US, IL, Chicago
INTRODUCTION DATE: ca. 1912
FILM TYPE: 35mm rollfilm cine
IMAGE SIZE: 18 x 24 mm.
FUNCTIONAL TYPE: film, silent
INTERCHANGEABLE LENS: Yes    INTEGRATED SHUTTER: Yes

NOTES:
  Standard cine camera used by William Selig studio of Chicago. Camera
  uses 400 foot internal magazines, movement is similar to Lumière's
  Cinématographe. GEH example is one of about 6 surviving examples.
  - TG 3/11/99.

OBJECT IDENTIFIER: S4657.00001