{"id":24952,"date":"2023-01-14T01:03:25","date_gmt":"2023-01-14T05:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=24952"},"modified":"2023-01-14T22:54:55","modified_gmt":"2023-01-15T02:54:55","slug":"pixilated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/pixilated\/","title":{"rendered":"pixilated"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_24953\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2-inch-wrist-camera-Popular-Mechanics-July-1949.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24953\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24953\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2-inch-wrist-camera-Popular-Mechanics-July-1949-sm-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"182\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24953\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">1949 ad for the Pixie 16mm film cassette camera made in Hollywood<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. Can you imagine a &#8220;fine precision camera&#8221; for only $6.25 US including a roll of colour film, shipping and all taxes? No? I can&#8217;t either, but that is what the makers claimed in this \u00a0July, 1949 ad.<\/p>\n<p>The cheap plastic &#8220;wrist&#8221; camera was actually a box camera with a special film cassette that made &#8220;Big 4 x 5 inch prints&#8221;. The <a href=\"http:\/\/historiccamera.com\/cgi-bin\/librarium2\/pm.cgi?action=app_display&amp;app=datasheet&amp;app_id=2904\">Pixie<\/a>\u00a0in McKeown&#8217;s 11th edition price guide was sold by Whittaker down in L.A. and valued at about 10x the original price without the 16mm cassette of colour film. It was sold around 1950.<\/p>\n<p>Our thanks goes to my good friend George Dunbar for \u00a0sourcing and sharing this advertisement<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. Can you imagine a &#8220;fine precision camera&#8221; for only $6.25 US including a roll of colour film, shipping and all taxes? No? I can&#8217;t either, but that is what the makers claimed in this \u00a0July, 1949 ad. The cheap &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/pixilated\/\">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":[972,398,2356,14,1852],"class_list":["post-24952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-ad","tag-camera","tag-cassette","tag-film","tag-sub-miniature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24952","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=24952"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24983,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24952\/revisions\/24983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}