by marop » Fri Jun 03, 2016 10:31 pm
Spectacular collection! Your lucky to have them and we're all lucky they didn't get dumped. I own a Mitchell Standard that was made in 1931 and sold to Paramount studios. It filmed many movies and stars like Marlene Deitrich and Bing Crosby. In the 1980s Paramount sold a bunch of their cameras and equipment, which could explain how it ended up in a Warner Brothers Studio warehouse years later. A company was hired to dispose of, destroy, all the contents, including the Standard and 4 others just like it (including motor, viewfinder, tripod, and magazine. A guy working for the salvage company was able to talk the guy into selling one camera to him. The rest are gone forever...how many of us collectors would have enjoyed saving those cameras....
Mark
Spectacular collection! Your lucky to have them and we're all lucky they didn't get dumped. I own a Mitchell Standard that was made in 1931 and sold to Paramount studios. It filmed many movies and stars like Marlene Deitrich and Bing Crosby. In the 1980s Paramount sold a bunch of their cameras and equipment, which could explain how it ended up in a Warner Brothers Studio warehouse years later. A company was hired to dispose of, destroy, all the contents, including the Standard and 4 others just like it (including motor, viewfinder, tripod, and magazine. A guy working for the salvage company was able to talk the guy into selling one camera to him. The rest are gone forever...how many of us collectors would have enjoyed saving those cameras....
Mark