Cover, case compartment

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OBJECT TYPE: film compartment
DATE: 1970
ARTIFACT NUMBER: 2010.0211.002

MANUFACTURER: Établissements Beaulieu
MODEL: R16 Automatic
LOCATION: France

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General Information

Serial #: N/A
Part Number: 2
Total Parts: 3
AKA: camera film compartment
Patents: N/A
General Description: All metal cover has smooth black finish and black imitation leather trim on exterior; wrinkle-textured finish on inside.

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length: 19.6 cm
Width: N/A
Height: 13.6 cm
Thickness: N/A
Weight: N/A
Diameter: N/A
Volume: N/A

Lexicon

Group: Photography
Category: Cine cameras
Sub-Category: N/A

Manufacturer

AKA: Beaulieu
Country: France
State/Province: Unknown
City: Unknown

Context

Country: Canada
State/Province: Quebec
Period: Unknown
Canada: Owned and used by Canadian film maker Bill Mason, who achieved international recognition for his wilderness and canoeing documentaries in the 1960s and 1970s.
Function: To help contain and protect contents of camera's film compartment.
Technical: The Bill Mason collection consists of typical cameras and other equipment in the 16 mm format widely used by documentary film makers in Canada in this period. Due to its relatively light weight (touted by the maker as the world's lightest) and reflex view finding system, the Beaulieu R16 was marketed as a news camera, although company literature also suggested it was ideal for industrial and scientific film making. Called by one authority a "reasonably sturdy, well designed, versatile, beautifully finished and easy-to-use machine," the Beaulieu was less expensive than such competitors as the Arriflex 16BL and Éclair NPR cameras, although also not as quiet or robust (Lipton, 132).
Area Notes: Unknown

Details

Markings: "O", "F", and directional arrow marked on compartment latch.
Missing: None.
Finish: All metal cover has smooth black finish and black imitation leather trim on exterior; wrinkle-textured finish on inside.
Decoration: N/A

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Établissements Beaulieu, Cover, case compartment, circa 1970, Artifact no. 2010.0211, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/2010.0211.002/

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