General Information

Serial #

N/A

Part Number

1

Total Parts

4

AKA

N/A

Patents

N/A

General Description

Bakelite body; metal spools and hardware/ cardstock box

Dimensions

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

Length

12.0 cm

Width

5.0 cm

Height

6.0 cm

Thickness

N/A

Weight

N/A

Diameter

N/A

Volume

N/A

Lexicon

Group

Photography

Category

Still cameras

Sub-Category

N/A

Manufacturer

AKA

Kodak

Country

Canada

State/Province

Ontario

City

Toronto

Context

Country

Canada

State/Province

Unknown

Period

Probably used in the 1940's

Canada

Kodak Canada was founded by Eastman Kodak in 1899 in a Toronto shop where employees cut sheet film and fitted lenses on cameras to support the growing potential for a photographic market in Canada. As Canadian interest in photography grew, the company expanded across the country throughout the 20th century to produce in all aspects of photography including still and movie cameras, film, x-ray film, photocopy paper, and photographic chemicals under many popular names including Brownie, Kodacolor, Carousel, and Supermatic.

Function

To record still images on photographic film.

Technical

This is a rigid body camera that uses 127 roll film and has a moulded Bakelite plastic body. It has a meniscus lens, a rotary shutter and produces a picture size, 1 5/8 x 2 ½ inches (Coe, 9). It is a cheap and simple torpedo-shaped camera with fixed focus lens mounted in a spiral-threaded telescoping mount: common, inexpensive, yet novel.

Area Notes

Unknown

Details

Markings

Camera: molded on front: 'BULLET CAMERA'/ molded on back: 'MADE IN USA BY EASTMAN KODAK CO. ROCHESTER, NY'/ decal inside back: 'BULLET CAMERA/ PAT. IN CANADA 1935/ Use KODAK/ 127/ FILM/ MADE IN CANADA BY/ CANADIAN KODAK CO. LIMITED/ TORONTO, ONT./ PRINTED IN U.S.A. NO. 74844'/ box: printed on top: 'BULLET/ CKC/ CAMERA'/ PRINTED on ends: 'BULLET CAMERA/ PICTURE SIZE 1 5/8 X 2 1/2 IN./ MADE IN CANADA BY/ CANADIAN KODAK/ CO., LIMITED/ TORONTO, ONTARIO/ TRADE MARK REGISTERED'

Missing

Complete

Finish

Camera: shiny black/ box: yellow and black with white and black printing

Decoration

Camera: body has a series of horizontal ridges; oval shape/ box: black and yellow checker pattern around centre of lid