{"id":23134,"date":"2022-04-30T01:04:52","date_gmt":"2022-04-30T05:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=23134"},"modified":"2022-04-29T22:38:49","modified_gmt":"2022-04-30T02:38:49","slug":"keeping-an-eye-out-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/keeping-an-eye-out-2\/","title":{"rendered":"keeping an eye out"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_23135\" style=\"width: 181px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Bell-Howell-American-Cinematographer-Oct.-1925-x.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23135\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23135\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Bell-Howell-American-Cinematographer-Oct.-1925-x-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"171\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-23135\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">October 1925 ad for Eyemo movie cameras by Bell &amp; Howell<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. Ahhh! The <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Roaring_Twenties#Aviation\">roaring twenties<\/a>. What a great time to be alive (according to the movies). Radio was invented a few years earlier, automobiles had been around for a couple of decades, aircraft were experimental, movies were silent, TV not around (thank god!), and practical photography was nearly 90 years old.<\/p>\n<p>All photography at the time was film based and used sensitive material needing a tripod (especially at night and indoors) for the what is now excruciatingly slow media (about ISO 100 tops).<\/p>\n<p>In 1925, Bell &amp; Howell promoted their new line of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eyemo\">Eyemo<\/a> Movie cameras with ads like this one in the October issue of American Cinematographer magazine.<\/p>\n<p>I am indebted to my good friend and fellow photographic enthusiast, George Dunbar, for unearthing and sharing this bit of history about cameras made so long ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. Ahhh! The roaring twenties. What a great time to be alive (according to the movies). Radio was invented a few years earlier, automobiles had been around for a couple of decades, aircraft were experimental, movies were silent, TV not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/keeping-an-eye-out-2\/\">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":[34,14,93],"class_list":["post-23134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-cameras","tag-film","tag-movie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23134","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=23134"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23138,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23134\/revisions\/23138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}