Daguerréotype camera
Enrico Federico Jest, Turin, 1840 ca.
Devices
The collection recounts a story with very broad boundaries: on the one hand it portrays the more technical side of filming, on the other hand it also touches on the history of sound reproduction and especially that of photography to which a large section is devoted. For Maria Adriana Prolo, the Museum’s founder, photography and cinema were in fact closely connected to each other. Among the equipment and accessories, we can find cameras, projectors and lab equipment that show the film production process. No less fascinating is the section dedicated to the birth of photography and its development: cameras, enlargers, visors and accessories for photography as well as stereoscopic devices and viewers that tell the adventures of one of the greatest dreams coming true in the first decades of nineteenth century: the search for the third dimension.
Alpina
Folding plate camera. Felice Bardelli & C.ia, Turin, 1876.
Plate studio camera
Lamperti & Garbagnati, Milan, 1910 ca.
Stereo viewer shaped Lombard castle
Domenico Bassi, Italy, 1880 ca.
Set for underwater shooting used by the documentarist Aldo Victor De Santis (1909-1996)
On the left, a 35 mm camera Vidamo electrified by De Santis himself; center: watertight case for this camera; right: watertight case patented by Grillantini and containing a 35 mm Sept camera.
35 mm film camera
Vitale Casiraghi, Turin, 1938 (french patent dating 1931 for a color film camera).
35 mm camera and projector
TEK, serie CN.009. Fratelli Serra & C., Turin, 1918 ca.
35 mm projector
Micron I, Microtecnica, Turin, 1933.
Moviola
Serie VI n. 118, Officine Prevost & C., Milan, after 1939.
Bull’s-Eye N. 2
Box film camera.
Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, NY, 1896-1913.
Vérascope
Stereo camera and stereo. Jules Richard, Paris, 1895 - 1900 ca.
35 mm camera.
Bell & Howell, Chicago, 1915-1925.
35 mm projector
Gaumont, Paris, 1900 ca.
Edison cylinder phonographs
On the left: National Phonograph Company, USA ante 1911; right: model D, Thomas A. Edison Inc., USA post 1911.