# Prestwich Camera

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[[File:Herbert G. Ponting and his camera - H.G.P. LCCN2009633374.jpg|thumb|Cinematographer [Herbert G. Ponting](/source/Herbert_G._Ponting) stands behind the Prestwich Model 5 Kinema Camera he used as official photographer for [Robert Falcon Scott](/source/Robert_Falcon_Scott)'s [''Terra Nova'' Expedition](/source/Terra_Nova_Expedition) (1910–1913).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co18516/prestwich-cine-camera-used-by-herbert-ponting-35-mm-cine-camera |title=Prestwich Model 5 cine camera used by Herbert Ponting |publisher=[Science Museum Group](/source/Science_Museum_Group) |access-date=April 2, 2025 }}</ref> He incorporated some of the footage he shot into his the 1924 documentary ''[The Great White Silence](/source/The_Great_White_Silence)''.]]

'''Prestwich Camera''' was a [cine camera](/source/cine_camera) produced by the [Prestwich Manufacturing Company](/source/J._A._Prestwich_Industries). It was eventually fitted with external magazines capable of holding up {{convert|400|ft|m}} of film.
Several types of "Prestwich Camera" were manufactured in the late 19th century.  One of the earliest designs of this type held {{convert|50|ft|m}} of film—more film than any other camera of the age.

According to Carl Louis Gregory,

::''An advertisement in Hopwood's "Living Pictures" edition of 1899 offers the "Prestwich" specialties for animated photography -- "nine different models of cameras and projectors in three sizes for l/2-inch, 1 3/8-inch and 2 3/8-inch width of film." ''

==See also==
[History of cinema](/source/History_of_cinema)

==References==
{{Reflist}}
*Coe, Brian. ''The History of Movie Photography''; Eastview Editions, 1981
*Gregory, Carl Louis. [http://www.widescreenmuseum.com/widescreen/early-jan1930.htm  "The Early History of Wide Films: Being a Peek into the Past that is Both Interesting and Enlightening"] published in American Cinematographer (January, 1930)
*[Toulmin, Vanessa](/source/Vanessa_Toulmin) et al. (eds.), ''The Lost World of Mitchell and Kenyon: Edwardian Britain on Film'', London, British Film Institute (2004).

Category:Movie cameras

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