{"id":23025,"date":"2022-04-03T01:04:58","date_gmt":"2022-04-03T05:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=23025"},"modified":"2022-04-02T21:17:52","modified_gmt":"2022-04-03T01:17:52","slug":"something-to-think-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/something-to-think-about\/","title":{"rendered":"something to think about"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_23026\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Bell-Howell-American-Cinematographer-Dec.-1923.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23026\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23026\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Bell-Howell-American-Cinematographer-Dec.-1923-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-23026\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">December 1923 ad for a Bell and Howell electric 35mm movie camera<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. We are all movie\/video\/TV fans at heart. But consider this &#8211; movies \u00a0preceded the minicams of the day (and the smartphones of today). We often think of great movies, but seldom of the equipment used to make them.<\/p>\n<p>While we occasionally think of late <a href=\"https:\/\/chicagology.com\/silentmovies\/bellhowell2709\/\">Bell and Howell<\/a>\u00a0 company post war, the company was the most successful \u00a0movie camera maker in the pre Mitchell days of movies (one of our presidents &#8211; the late Bill Belier &#8211; was once a salesman for B&amp;H).<\/p>\n<p>Movie makers either switched to Bell &amp; Howell&#8217;s 35mm standard or used inferior equipment; Bell &amp; Howell led the way to transitioning from wood to metal for their cameras; and Bell &amp; Howell shifted from hand powered cameras to electric to make the cameras steadier, and the frame rate more consistent allowing the cinematographer to concentrate on other issues.<\/p>\n<p>We in the minicam stills era were often blessed by these Bell and Howell movie based innovations.<\/p>\n<p>My thanks to that retired industrial stills and movies expert, my good friend George Dunbar for sourcing this article (and advertisement) and sharing it with us.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. We are all movie\/video\/TV fans at heart. But consider this &#8211; movies \u00a0preceded the minicams of the day (and the smartphones of today). We often think of great movies, but seldom of the equipment used to make them. While &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/something-to-think-about\/\">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":[398,14,93],"class_list":["post-23025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-camera","tag-film","tag-movie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23025","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=23025"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23029,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23025\/revisions\/23029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}