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).
George Mitchell received the Academy Award for Technical Achievement in the early 1950s.
Mitchell supplied camera movements for Technicolor's Three-Strip camera (1932), and movements for others' 65mm and VistaVision conversions before later making complete 65mm and VistaVision cameras (normal and high speed).
Mitchell also made a pin-registered background plate projector with a carbon arc lamphouse which was synchronized with the film camera. One of the first MPRPPs (Mitchell Pin Registered Process Projector) was used in "Gone with the Wind". Two- and three-headed background projectors evolved for VistaVision effects.
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