{"id":22532,"date":"2022-01-25T01:02:34","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T05:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=22532"},"modified":"2022-01-24T01:16:46","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T05:16:46","slug":"the-graflex-of-movie-cameras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/the-graflex-of-movie-cameras\/","title":{"rendered":"the Graflex of movie cameras"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_22534\" style=\"width: 155px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Billy-Bitzer-American-Cinematographer-August-1922.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22534\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22534\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Billy-Bitzer-American-Cinematographer-August-1922-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"145\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-22534\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">1922 ad for Mitchell cameras<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. Professional camera men in Hollywood for the most part used <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mitchell_Camera\">Mitchell<\/a> cameras. The Mitchell was to Hollywood cameramen like a Graflex camera was to newshounds &#8211; Fully professional and a sturdy work horse.<\/p>\n<p>In 1922, when silents were still leading edge movies, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Billy_Bitzer\">Billy Bitzer<\/a> took the time to write the Mitchel company and compliment their product. Decades later, well into the sound and colour era, Mitchell was still the professional&#8217;s movie camera of choice.<\/p>\n<p>A heartfelt thank you to my good friend and fellow photographic history buff, George Dunbar, for sharing this advertisement from the August 1922 issue of American Cinematographer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. Professional camera men in Hollywood for the most part used Mitchell cameras. The Mitchell was to Hollywood cameramen like a Graflex camera was to newshounds &#8211; Fully professional and a sturdy work horse. In 1922, when silents were still &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/the-graflex-of-movie-cameras\/\">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":[972,973,14,263,2724,2570,93],"class_list":["post-22532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-ad","tag-advertisement","tag-film","tag-graflex","tag-hollywood","tag-mitchell","tag-movie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22532","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=22532"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22537,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22532\/revisions\/22537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}