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In the recessed hand crank well, clear
instructions are provided for the
cranking operation. The camera must
be used on a tripod when hand
cranking. The screw holes beside the
crank handle recess allow for The
attachment of an electric motor drive
assembly. The lever above selects either
direct viewing through the inverted rear Above: The engine room, from left to right. The front
finder or reflex viewing, right way up, compartment houses the lens control levers. then the
through the waist level viewfinder, an flywheel/shutter and claw cams. The claw can be seen in the
innovation introduced in the 1924 retracted position, The rear wall holds the gate and aperture,
model. shown with the gate and pressure pad open. An 8 Frame brass
sprocket retains the loops and two 100' daylight loading spools
complete the inner workings, all very neat and robust. The film
path is clearly shown, as is the rotation of the feed and take up

Enter the Model 'B' (right). In 1925 Kodak
released the much smaller and vastly
improved Model “B” Cine-Kodak that rapidly
superseded the “A”. The 'B' and the "BB" (a
smaller 50' load version) did for home movies
what Mr Eastman 's Box Cameras had done
for "snapshot" photography. The continued
improvement of the Model “B” design
resulted, a decade later in the Cine- Special - a
“Special" indeed, but that's another story.

At right: The Cine-Kodak Model “B”
(left) and its smaller brother the
Cine-Kodak Model “BB”

The Cine-Kodak cameras and the
Kodascope projector are from the
Mike Trickett - Cinepix collection.

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