FEATURES OF BELL & HOWELL FILMO 70DL 16mm MOTION PICTURE CAMERA LOADING & OPERATION XD46204

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website Made for film students and budding cinematographers, this silent film gives instructions about the features of the Bell & Howell 70-DL motion picture camera, sometimes referred to as a “Filmo“. It also shows how to load and operate the three lens, turreted, parallax viewfinder camera. The DL model of the camera was produced circa 1951-1954, so this film likely dates to that era. (Note: The Filmo name was also used to identify a whole series of 16mm and / 8mm movie equipment made by Bell & Howell, including cameras, projectors and accessories.) The Filmo 70 was the first spring motor-driven 16mm camera, built in 1923, the same year that 16mm film stock was introduced. In 1925 the Eyemo, a hand-held 35 mm camera based on the design of the Filmo 70 was offered. It was also spring driven, but could be hand-cranked as well. The 16mm Filmo cameras, like the one shown i