Camera Museum

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
2443
Date Released
28 Mar 1976
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Opening of Bafta Headquarters
  2. 2British Film Awards
  3. 3Camera Museum
  4. *St. Patrick’s Day Parade

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue
3 / 3
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Camera Museum. DESCRIPTION: In his Museum at Yatton, Mr Stanley Jones-Frank has gathered together a unique collection of old cinema cameras and projectors. Movietone presents some of its archive film, which is over eighty years old. Much of this old Nitrate film is in danger of being lost because of decay. The cost of transferring this historically valuable film to safety stock would be astronomical. SHOTLIST: GV exterior "The Grange" Congresbury, Somerset. SV interior Mr Stanley Jones-Frank fitting paperband in the Zoetrope earliest form of moving pictures - approx 1840. SV Zoetrope starts to move round. CU ditto. LV Stanley Jones-Frank showing the Prestwich Camera - 1897. CU showing the eccentric sprocket movement. CU full length of film of 1897 about 50ft (George Lelies). SV Stanley looking through the Mutoscope (What The Butler Saw) 1909. SV partly nude girl in bath. CU Stanley looking into the Mutoscope. GV Stanley walks around various cameras. CU lens and camera - Debrie Parvo - 1912, track back as Stanley operates panning handles. CU Stanley looking at camera. LV as he moves along to view more cameras. SV Newman-Sinclair camera No 434 belonging previously to Paul Wyand of Movietone. CU name "Paul Wyand" on lens case. Air view Vesuvius erupting 1944, taken by Paul Wyand. SV houses collapsing, pushed down by molten lava. LV buildings collapse. LV ditto. SV the MOY camera - 1909 Movietone News poster on wall in b/g. CU Stanley opens camera door and fixes on cranking handle turns to show gears working. CU ditto. CU gears in camera working. CU MOY camera and lens. SV Stanley showing the Williamson "Topical" camera - 1920. Mr S Jones-Frank’s first camera. SV camera door opens showing spool 2 film operating. LV Stanley closes camera door and turns camera towards our camera. CU ditto. SV Eymo News camera track back showing the Ernemann and Cine-Kodak "A" cameras. SV poster - Special attraction The Derby 1912. SV Stanley holds up the Devry News camera. SV film technician holding up strip of coloured film - buffalo hunt in 1906. CU strip of film. LV Stanley operating the Urban Bioscope projector - used in travelling shows about 1900. SV track into lens of projector. GV elephants leading buffalo hunt in 1906. SV huntsman being directed through marshland. SV huntsman with rifles through marshland. SV huntsman fires rifle. SV buffalo scattering in pool. SV huntsmen round bead buffalo. CU track back piled up very old rusty film cans containing nitrate film. CU name "nitrate" on can. CU lifting lid off can revealing deteriorated nitrate film. LV man looking at old nitrate film roll. CU ditto. LV holding up roll of film. CU looking at section of film. LV man throwing nitrate film roll onto dump for burning. SV nitrate film roll onto dump. CU lighting nitrate film with match. SV zoom back to GV nitrate film dump burning. CU nitrate film burning fiercely. CU ditto. LV ditto. SV fire dying down. 230’ Selected Scenes - various old cameras and projectors in museum, some working including P Wyand’s camera case, "What The Butler Saw" machine, old Electric Palace poster.
Keywords
Sport; Buildings and structures; Mass media; Entertainment and leisure; Environment; Accidents and disasters; Animals; History and archaeology; Exhibitions and shows; Hunting; Newsreels
Locations
Somerset
Card file number
76/49
Credits:
Commentator
Leonard Martin
Camera
Norman Fisher
Length of story (in feet)
390
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