Levison Motion Picture Camera
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Wallace Goold Levison's experimental 1887 motion picture camera. Goold designed the camera to take photographs at high speed - 3 to 12 exposures per second - on dry plates affixed to a rotating poygonal wheel. The wheel turned intermittently by the action of a drunken worm and pinion mechanism, and an electromagnet operated the camera's shutter. Goold first used the camera on October 7, 1887, when he filmed Eddie Pierce jumping - probably in the backyard of his Brooklyn home - according to notes made by A. J. Olmstead. This catalog number includes the camera, three glass plate negatives, and six prints made on 10-07-1887 showing Eddie Pierce (or possibly Victor Grimwood) jumping.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Brooklyn
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content: Work and Industry: Photographic History
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PG.003741
label: catalog number
content: 3741
label: accession number
content: 71834
label: catalog number
content: 3741.1
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Motion Picture Camera
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: handmade (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 17 in x 25 1/4 in x 9 1/2 in; 43.18 cm x 64.135 cm x 24.13 cm