{"id":24302,"date":"2022-10-19T01:03:57","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T05:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=24302"},"modified":"2022-10-18T22:19:24","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T02:19:24","slug":"sometimes-a-camera-is-really-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/sometimes-a-camera-is-really-special\/","title":{"rendered":"sometimes a camera is really  special"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_24304\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Kodak-movie-ad-from-1934.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24304\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24304\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Kodak-movie-ad-from-1934-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"89\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24304\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">a Cin\u00e9-Kodak for Christmas &#8230;.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. Take for example the camera in this 1934 advertisement. Two years earlier in 1932, Kodak began marketing a new smaller film format for the family &#8216;movie&#8217; photographer \u00a0starting out during the great depression when money and jobs were so scarce &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/8_mm_film\">the 8mm film<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A camera just like the one in the ad was George Dunbar&#8217;s introduction to a like-long interest in cinematography. George sent us the ad and with it he writes, &#8220;Published in a small brochure featuring ads from 1934 &#8230; this is the camera my Dad used to teach me &#8220;cinematography&#8221; when I was about six or seven.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m guessing, but from the ribbon, the word &#8216;gift&#8217; and the first scenes, it looks like a Kodak Christmas ad. In any case, just such a camera had a very special place in George&#8217;s life as he became an industrial cinematographer for IBM many years later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. Take for example the camera in this 1934 advertisement. Two years earlier in 1932, Kodak began marketing a new smaller film format for the family &#8216;movie&#8217; photographer \u00a0starting out during the great depression when money and jobs were so &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/sometimes-a-camera-is-really-special\/\">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":[1786,972,398,21,93],"class_list":["post-24302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-8mm","tag-ad","tag-camera","tag-kodak","tag-movie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24302","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=24302"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24307,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24302\/revisions\/24307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}