Le Parvo
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Le Parvo[1] is a series of cine cameras for 35mm film, made by Debrie of Paris from 1908 until at least 1929.
The camera was introduced by Joseph Jules Debrie as a wooden-bodied, hand-cranked camera.[2] Cameras were aluminium-bodied from the early 1920s,[3] and the cited reference shows a photograph of a Parvo Model L used with an electric motor.
Debrie made many models of the Parvo, including special cameras (high-speed, sound, etc.) and also more common, general-purpose models such as the wooden Interview,[4] itself made in more than one version, and the metal-bodied Model L, used by Frank Hurley among others.[3][5]
Notes
- ↑ 'Parvo' is 'small' in Latin. The camera is small by the standards of cine cameras of its time.
- ↑ French Patent 403250 of 1908, Appareil de prise de vues pour cinématographe, susceptible de servir comme appareil ordinaire de photographie (Camera for cinematography, capable of being used as an ordinary photographic camera), and the British equivalent British Patent 21217 of 1909, An Improved Portable Apparatus for Taking Pictures for Cinematographs, granted to Joseph Jules Debrie; at Espacenet, the patent search facility of the European Patent Office.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Notes on the Parvo at The First CineMakers
- ↑ Notes on the Parvo, especially the Interview at Kino Cameras
- ↑ Parvo Model L kit; camera and a collection of lenses, sold at the 37th Leitz Photographica Auction, in November 2020.
