Technicolor camera Model D

OBJECT TYPE: Camera
MANUFACTURER: Technicolor Corp.
NATIONALITY: American
PLACE MANUFACTURED: US, CA, Hollywood
OBJECT NAME VARIATION: 3 Strip Technicolor camera Model D
INTRODUCTION DATE: 1932
PRODUCTION DATES: 1932 - ca. 1950
FILM TYPE: 35mm rollfilm cine
IMAGE SIZE: 18 x 24 mm
APPROXIMATE MANUFACTURED QUANTITY: 28
FUNCTIONAL TYPES:
  film, silent
  color
INTERCHANGEABLE LENS: Yes    INTEGRATED SHUTTER: Yes

NOTES:
  Large special built cine camera for the three strip Technicolor
  process. The camera exposes three rolls of Black & white film
  simultaneiuly producing a color separation negative. Using special
  printing machinery, a color dye postive print is made from these
  negatives. 28 Model D cameras were produced, numbered D1-D12, D14-D29;
  D13 was not assigned. The GEH example is D14.
  Of the 28 cameras produced, 21 were made before WWII, 7 were post
  post WWII. 11 cameras were later modified for wide screen, either
  Technirama or Vistavision.

OBJECT IDENTIFIER: T2551.00001

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCE: Coe, Brian. --The History of Movie Photography.-- Eastview Editions, 1981. p 133.//