a Ciné-Kodak for Christmas ….
Toronto. Take for example the camera in this 1934 advertisement. Two years earlier in 1932, Kodak began marketing a new smaller film format for the family ‘movie’ photographer starting out during the great depression when money and jobs were so scarce – the 8mm film.
A camera just like the one in the ad was George Dunbar’s introduction to a like-long interest in cinematography. George sent us the ad and with it he writes, “Published in a small brochure featuring ads from 1934 … this is the camera my Dad used to teach me “cinematography” when I was about six or seven.”
I’m guessing, but from the ribbon, the word ‘gift’ and the first scenes, it looks like a Kodak Christmas ad. In any case, just such a camera had a very special place in George’s life as he became an industrial cinematographer for IBM many years later.
