Film camera

Manufacturer	Gaumont, Société des Etablissements
Name	Chrono Négatif Gaumont
Place	France
Date	1912
Register	792

Camera of the Gaumont company, which had a claw system, invented by the Lumière brothers, for the dragging of the 35 mm film. It was fitted with two external film holder cases of up to one hundred and twenty metres, a counter for the film footage, a viewfinder and a manual diaphragm, among other features. It was operated by means of a folding handle, to facilitate its transport. With this apparatus, Gaumont abandoned the eccentrically mounted beater system to intermittently move the film. This mechanism patented by Demeny had a serious problem: the frames recorded on the film were not all the same size, nor was the distance between them the same, which required a constant re-framing of the frames when projected onto the screen. The Chrono Négatif Gaumont camera is an authorised copy of the British Prestwich Model 4.

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