{"id":16103,"date":"2019-11-30T05:26:59","date_gmt":"2019-11-30T09:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=16103"},"modified":"2019-11-30T19:29:51","modified_gmt":"2019-11-30T23:29:51","slug":"when-is-a-camera-not-a-camera-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/when-is-a-camera-not-a-camera-2\/","title":{"rendered":"when is a camera not a camera?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Komic Kamera (c1930s 2D film strip viewer)<\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto<\/strong>. When it’s a Komic Kamera – a toy handheld \u00a02D viewer for film strips! The size of this viewer suggests 35mm strips. I saw a couple of sites on Google that suggested the little toy was made by different companies – Allied<\/a> in Chicago, and Russakov<\/a>\u00a0also in Chicago.<\/p>\n

The “camera” was made in both tin and bakelite versions. It was actually a toy made to view short film strips frame by frame as you turned the knob to bring the next frame into view. The strips told a short story in 2D, usually featuring American newspaper comic characters of the day (some movie plots were used too, apparently).<\/p>\n

The “Made in Chicago Museum<\/a>” page gives background on Allied while the “Kleefeld on Comics<\/a>” page credits Russakov. Kleefeld also suggests somewhat lewd\/adult strips were offered for the tiny viewers.<\/p>\n

As a kid, I once had a smaller bakelite viewer, black with art-deco sides. The strips were a smaller 16mm width to my memory. A ground glass window illuminated a frame while a simple eye-piece focused the frame on the retina. The bakelite case could be carefully pulled opened and the film strip exchanged for another. I think it came was some old cartoons.<\/p>\n

It appeared in my life suddenly and then disappeared for ever – my mother liked to trash toys once my interest was lost – or pass them on to others. My thanks to good friend George Dunbar for this trip back along memory lane,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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