MITCHELL CAMERA

'Mitchell Camera Corporation' was founded in 1919 by Henry Boger and George Alfred Mitchell. Their first camera was designed and patented by John E. Leonard in 1917, from 1920 on known as the Mitchell Standard. Features included a planetary gear-driven variable shutter (US Patent No 1,297,703) and a unique rack-over design (US Pat No 1,297,704).
There were several off-springs of the Mitchell, namely the Fox-Grandeur Wide Film Camera (70 mm) in 1928-29, the Beam-Splitting Three-Strip Camera for the Technicolor Corporation in 1932, the CinemaScope-55 Camera (55-mm film) in 195?, and the Todd-A. O. Camera for 65-mm film in 1955, an adjustment of the Grandeur.

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★ Ira B. Hoke: Mitchell Camera Nears Majority. In: American Cinematographer, December 1938, page 495 f.

★ L. Sprague Anderson: Mitchell, the Standard. In: Society of Camera Operators Magazine. www.soc.org/magazine.html