Bell & Howell Eyemo Camera 71

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Product number: AI_22_14417
Starting Price €1,600
Estimate €2,800 – 3,500
serial number : 305246
Condition : B-
Manufacture Year : c.1930
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Bell & Howell Eyemo Camera 71

35mm movie camera especially converted for Leica M mount for Stefan Kruckenhauser, with a unique 18x24mm Visoflex I built to special order by Leitz with semi-reflecting mirror for simultaneously scoping and filming, with early all-black Telyt 4.8/280mm no.1900547. Prof. Stefan Kruckenhauser is known amongst skiing enthusiasts the world over as the inventor of wedeling. The international triumph of this technique was greatly enhanced by Kruckenhauser’s second talent, photography and filming. In the late 50s he published the famous book 'Österreichischer Schilehrplan' (Austrian Ski Curriculum) where he used this and the following camera and then the single frames of 35mm movie film to illustrate the sequences of skiing

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