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Univex 8mm Movie Camera

Toronto. Sometimes a low price and great hype pay off. This combo paid off in spades for the Universal Camera Corporation in the late 1930s through the very early 1950s when its Univex 8mm movie cameras introduced a huge number of snap-shooters to the world of amateur movie making.

You can read more about the camera here (be careful dodging the ads). The tiny image of a Univex 8mm  camera is also courtesy of Mike Eckman. Take some time to browse his site!

The ad itself is courtesy of my good friend just east of here, George Dunbar. It is from the January, 1939 issue of Popular Mechanics magazine.

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