Filmo 70 A Motion Picture Camera

The Filmo 70 is the first spring motor-driven 16mm camera, the first in the long-running Filmo series. This is an A model, with a sing f/3.5 lens and two film speeds, 8 and 16 frames per second. 16 frames per second was considered standard at the time. This model was intended for home video or amateur film, but later models became popular for filming news in war zones due to the ruggedness of the cameras. This particular camera may have been previously owned by Albert N. Mills '06, a Grinnell alum who appears in the 1906 edition of the Cyclone. The manual has his name written on it in two places.

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Technology

Cameras

Bell & Howell

Storage Location F1a

1930