by guy bagnall » Tue Feb 05, 2019 2:53 am
Hi - I had a camera in a cupboard and needed to think of selling it. It was given to me by an animator friend and colleague and I had not looked closely at it for years. For some reason I thought it was a British camera but imagine my surprise when I realised it was a Mitchell - like finding a Rolls Silver Ghost in the garage. The badge gives the number 125, and I understand it was sold on October 4th 1928. The buyer turned out to be a rather eminent Cinematographer, Norbert Brodine, and it looks as though the camera was used on films directed by William Wyler, Raoul Walsh, Gregory La Cava, Frank Borzage, Lloyd Bacon, Roy Del Ruth and W S Van Dyke plus a Keaton film, The Paranoid Plumber. If anyone has an idea of how it ended up in London I would love to know. There is a plaque under the viewfinder that records Mitchell patents from 1921 to 1926, which suggests it probably has the improvements brought out in 1925. A few pics attached - taken on an i-phone!
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Hi - I had a camera in a cupboard and needed to think of selling it. It was given to me by an animator friend and colleague and I had not looked closely at it for years. For some reason I thought it was a British camera but imagine my surprise when I realised it was a Mitchell - like finding a Rolls Silver Ghost in the garage. The badge gives the number 125, and I understand it was sold on October 4th 1928. The buyer turned out to be a rather eminent Cinematographer, Norbert Brodine, and it looks as though the camera was used on films directed by William Wyler, Raoul Walsh, Gregory La Cava, Frank Borzage, Lloyd Bacon, Roy Del Ruth and W S Van Dyke plus a Keaton film, The Paranoid Plumber. If anyone has an idea of how it ended up in London I would love to know. There is a plaque under the viewfinder that records Mitchell patents from 1921 to 1926, which suggests it probably has the improvements brought out in 1925. A few pics attached - taken on an i-phone!