page_title: Kodak Cine Special 16mm Cameras
hierarchical_section_title: Kodak Cine Special 16mm Cameras
caption_attribution_description: This is a relatively rare Cine-Kodak model with an ostrich skin covering. It came with a matching ostrich skin covered carrying case. It is likely that 500 or less units were ever produced. The basic Model B sold for 85 USD in the 1920s. You had to have been very well heeled to afford this special camera back then.
context_page_description: The Kodak Cine Special 16mm Cameras are a family of precision, versatile, spring-wound 16mm silent movie cameras produced by Eastman Kodak from the 1930s to the 1960s, and intended for advanced consumers and industry professionals. While its rectangular format was typical of earlier Kodak 16 mm cameras, the CKS 'box' was formed by two joined sections: the spring motor half with the user controls, winding cranks, and gear work to the shutter. The other half was a film magazine which docked to the motor. This allowed the cinematographer to pre-load multiple magazines of film for quick interchange of film.
  Standard features included:
  Interchangeable lenses
  Variable shutter creating fades and dissolves effects
  Reflex focusing
  Quick-change film magazines
  100’ film magazines
  Chime warning when the spring is almost unwound
  Slots in front of the lens in which to insert masks of various shapes
  Manual cranking shafts: 1 frame per turn and 8 frames per turn.
  Two-lens turret
  Optional features included:
  Owner’s name engraved on bottom of lens turret
  200' film magazines
  Motor Drive
  Tripod
context_section_description: The Kodak Cine Special 16mm Cameras (CKS) are a family of precision, versatile, spring-wound 16mm silent movie cameras produced by Eastman Kodak from the 1930s to the 1960s, and intended for advanced consumers and industry professionals.  While its rectangular format was typical of earlier Kodak 16 mm cameras (such as Cine-Kodak, Kodak Models B, F and K), the CKS 'box' was formed by two joined sections: the spring motor half with the user controls, winding cranks, and gear work to the shutter.  The other half was a film magazine which docked to the motor.  This allowed the cinematographer to pre-load multiple magazines of film for quick interchange of film.
  Standard features included:
  Interchangeable lenses
  Variable shutter creating fades and dissolves effects
  Reflex focusing
  Quick-change film magazines
  100’ film magazines
  Chime warning when the spring is almost unwound
  Slots in front of the lens in which to insert masks of various shapes
  Manual cranking shafts: 1 frame per turn and 8 frames per turn.
  Two-lens turret
  Optional features included:
  Owner’s name engraved on bottom of lens turret
  200' film magazines
  Motor Drive
  Tripod
caption: KOdak Cine Model B
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