Beaulieu R16 reflex movie camera
Date: circa 1965
Inventory Number: 2000-1-0021a,b,c
Classification: Motion Picture Camera
Subject:
Maker: Beaulieu (1951-present)
User: Herbert W. Levi (born 1921)
Cultural Region:
Dimensions:
camera (a): 20 × 24.8 × 8.5 cm (7 7/8 × 9 3/4 × 3 3/8 in.)
battery charger (b): 3.1 × 9 × 3.1 cm (1 1/4 × 3 9/16 × 1 1/4 in.)
handle attachment (c): 12.3 × 7.3 × 3.6 cm (4 13/16 × 2 7/8 × 1 7/16 in.)
Material:
Accessories: contains a single empty daylight spool; one handle attachment and battery charger (incomplete).
Description:
Standard 16mm handcranked movie camera (similar to a Bolex, etc.) with a three lens turrent containing a Schneider-Kreuznach Cine-Tele-Xenar f2.8 75mm lens.
Signedon side: Beaulieu
on lens: Schneider-Kreuznach Cine-Tele-Xenar 1:2.8/75 8655118
inside camera body: MADE IN FRANCE
on lens: Schneider-Kreuznach Cine-Tele-Xenar 1:2.8/75 8655118
inside camera body: MADE IN FRANCE
Inscribedon right side of camera: Beaulieu Reflex Control
FunctionUsed by Prof. Herbert Walter Levi, Professor of Biology, Emeritus Organismic & Evolutionary Biology, Museum of Comparatvie Zoology, Harvard Univsersity, 26 Oxford St. Room 131, Cambridge, MA.
Curatorial RemarksThis camera was first introduced on the market in 1956. For more information on Beaulieu camera, see the company's official website.