{"id":21114,"date":"2021-07-25T01:11:06","date_gmt":"2021-07-25T05:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=21114"},"modified":"2021-07-19T21:31:40","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T01:31:40","slug":"its-a-date-dont-be-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/its-a-date-dont-be-late\/","title":{"rendered":"it&#8217;s a date &#8211; don&#8217;t be late"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_21115\" style=\"width: 169px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Briskin8-Popular-Photography-July-1947.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21115\" class=\"wp-image-21115 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Briskin8-Popular-Photography-July-1947-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"159\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-21115\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">1947 ad for Briskin 8 home movie camera<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. Home movie cameras were offered before, during, and after WW2. The top end models were the Bolex line from Europe and the Bell and Howell (B&amp;H) line made in Chicago. Cheaper models were made and sold by Kodak. A Chicago radiator company founded by Russian immigrant Sam Briskin, saw a market for a mid range line of movie cameras and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.madeinchicagomuseum.com\/single-post\/revere-camera-co\/\">the Revere line was invented<\/a> and took off (scroll down this Revere link to read about the Briskin camera).<\/p>\n<p>Sam&#8217;s middle boy, Ted, decided to compete with the family and produced the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boostfirem.com\/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;products_id=774269\">Briskin 8<\/a> which undercut Revere. Sadly, the Briskin turned out to be a retail flop and was sold briefly around 1947.<\/p>\n<p>My thanks and a tip of the hat to that enthusiastic photographic historian, George Dunbar, for unearthing this ad on a rare camera in the <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.ca\/books?id=Fl4zAQAAMAAJ&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;source=gbs_ge_summary_r&amp;cad=0#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\">July, 1947 issue of Popular Photography<\/a> and sharing it with us,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. Home movie cameras were offered before, during, and after WW2. The top end models were the Bolex line from Europe and the Bell and Howell (B&amp;H) line made in Chicago. Cheaper models were made and sold by Kodak. A &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/its-a-date-dont-be-late\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1944],"tags":[1664,3766,2575,1971,2953,2747,1759],"class_list":["post-21114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-bl","tag-briskin","tag-briskin-8","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-museum","tag-movie-camera","tag-revere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21114"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21120,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21114\/revisions\/21120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}