Cameras, lanterns, and more pre-cinema 3D heritage from Girona

35mm camera with two handles and a leather strap. It also includes 2 external film holder chassis. Manufactured from 1908, it was launched on the market in 1910 by the French company Pathé, one of the most important firms in the world in the production of…

Photo camera for wet collodion plates. The dimensions and weight of this device made it suitable only for use in a photographic studio. Its large lens, by the prestigious Austrian brand Voigtländer & John, allows one to capture bright, high-quality im…

Travel camera for 24 x 18 cm plates. Since the early days of photography, several attempts have been made to reduce the bulk and weight of cameras and make them more portable. The solution was provided by the use of a folding leather bellows (soufflet, in…

Camera and film projector for the 35mm films. Patented on 13 February 1895 by August and Louis Lumière as Cinématographe Lumière, the device, with the appropriate accessories, recorded moving images on a 35 mm celluloid film, made positive copies of the f…

Brown leather-lined device for sensitive paper roll. On the front, target 1.5 cm in diameter. At the top, metal key to circulate the paper roll and shutter trigger. Second opening for paper rewinding. On the side, a button that allows you to remove the co…

35mm film camera with 3 lenses. Includes leather strap and black Bakelite handle. First model of Eyemo series cameras for 35 mm film was released on the market in 1925 as an evolution of the Filmo 70 model, created two years earlier. It could load up to o…

First camera and projector of the 16 mm film format. Since 1914, Kodak had been researching with materials and techniques to manufacture cinema cameras and http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300233202 for the emerging amateur film market. The research focused on …

First 16 mm projector and camera that incorporates a 125V-220W electric lamp and a Kodascope motor of 105-125V. Since 1914, Kodak had been researching with materials and techniques to manufacture cinema cameras and http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300233202 for…

Laboratory for daguerreotypes. Color palette for coloring daguerreotypes. It contains 22 holes for different colors. This object belongs to a laboratory for daguerreotypes which contains all the elements needed for the preparation and subsequent developm…

Red projector for a band of two 10 cm wide images with electric lighting. Children's film projector manufactured by the American company NIC Projector Company. In 1932, the manufacture of children's animated image http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300233…

Tin sheet cylinder for phonograph. In 1877, Thomas Edison invented the phonograph, the first machine that could record and reproduce sound. This device recorded the sound on sheets of tinfoil. The sound made a membrane vibrate, which moved a needle markin…

Laboratory for daguerreotypes. Medicine cabinet with chemical products for developing daguerreotypes. It contains 10 bottles placed in a removable tray: 1st/Iodine; 2nd/Alcohol (empty); 3rd/Hypo Sodium Thiosulfate; 4th/Red Polish (without cap); 6th/Sodium…

Projector for reflection of paper films with double lateral perforation and cartoons printed in color. Green device that includes a green wooden base and electric cord with plug. Device created in 1942 and patented in 1944 by Josep Escobar, popular comic …

Lantern for glass plates of maximum width 11 cm. A rare example of a magic lantern for family use. It depicts a polychromed Chinese Mandarin (red, gold, black), with a flue in the form of a wavy cap crowned with a golden crescent. It is the first three-pi…

Red metal chassis with 189 B/W photographic images placed inside tabs. The filoscope, which is also called a flick book or flip book, was a novelty item to animate a drawn or photographic image. It was patented by the English printer John Barnes Linnett i…

Laboratory for daguerreotypes. Alcohol lamp with wick, for heating the plate and the mercury box. This object belongs to a laboratory for daguerreotypes which contains all the elements needed for the preparation and subsequent development of a daguerreot…

Mutoscope with magnifying lens for observing a 13 cm diameter roll. Kinora with photographs included in tabs. Varnished wood and the metal is black. Kinora manufactured by Bond's Ltd. in London, one of the few British companies authorised to manufact…

Mutoscope with magnifying lens for observing a roll of photographic images in a 7 x 8 cm tab. Includes cover with lock and key on the left side, for changing the roll. It works with coins. Device patented by the American Hermann Casler in 1894, based on a…

Film projector for 9,5 mm films that incorporates a 110V electric motor that replaces the handle system to actuate the drag of the film, and that allows automatic rewinding. It includes reels with a capacity of one hundred and twenty meters of film, which…

Shadow theatre with representation of people in various attitudes of movement. System uses a roll of paper where the images are printed in the form of black silhouettes. The roll is set in motion by means of two handles located at the top of the stage, so…

35 mm projector for 300 m films. Built by the engineer Jules Carpentier, it was based on the same projection mechanism as the Cinématographe Lumière (1895). Suitably equipped with a projection lantern and an easel, this device could only project, which ma…

Figures that depict a pair of travelling magic lantern showmen. Throughout the eighteenth century until the beginning of the nineteenth century, at fairs and markets throughout Europe, wanderers and dealers offered their show, burdened with lanterns, ofte…

Desktop viewer for stereoscopic photographs, with three pairs of interchangeable lenses, adjustable in height, as well as the distance between the lenses and the photograph. It has openings at the top and back of the viewer to adjust the incidence of ligh…