MOTION PICTURE CAMERAS

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 79, 28 December 1926, Page 8

MOTION PICTURE CAMERAS

TOURISTS WELL SUPPLIED Dominion Special. Auckland, December 97. Over 120 of the tourists who arrived in Auckland by the Carinthia yesterday possess their own motion picture cameras, and an expert is kept continually employed in developing film by the furlong. When the vessel left America there were 75 of these cameras in use, but anticipating a demand for instruments, the organisers of the tour had arranged for a stock. The result was that within two months over two score were bought. The cameras are diminutive, but they use a standard size film. Already tens of thousands of feet of pictures have been developed, and some interesting scenes of activity have been recorded at every port. The film is developed at the rate of 1600 ft. a day by an apparatus which cost £lOOO. The fascination of Japan and China exercised such an appeal to the motion picture camera users that the operator is 16 days in arrear with the developing. The finished film is shown on a screen each afternoon, but the majority of the tourists have projectors in their homes, and the film is being stored for private exhibition at the completion of the trip. In addition to the motion cameras there are nearly: 500 ordinary cameras on the ship, and some tourists use three or four different types.