SOLD - JA Ball Technicolor System 3 (No. 28) Hand Crank 35mm Movie Camera + Accessories

JA Ball Technicolor System 3 (No. 28) 35mm Movie Camera + Accessories

Ultra Rare

Package Includes

• JA Ball Technicolor System 3 (No. 28) 35mm camera body
• Movement cranks over - no crank included (2709 crank should fit)
  
• System III Cyan/Magenta Beamsplitter #14
• Matte Box Holder + Rods
  
• Technicolor Camera Case
  
• Director's Finder
  
• Technicolor 400ft Magazine + Case
  
• Duel Veeder Counter
  
• Photocopied Manual for J.A.Wall Camera Movement
  

Three Lenses

• Lens 1: Taylor-Hobson-Cooke 52mm f2.0
  
• Lenses 2 and 3: These lenses, stamped "Technicolor" lenses, are of unknown focal length or aperture, presumed to be a wide angle and a telephoto. (A chip and deep scratch on the outer edge of the long lens. It has a screw on diopter which also has a chip on the outer edge.) Cleaning scratches and some haze to wipe inside. These lenses obviously haven't been used since 1940 but looks nice and have stamped TECHNICOLOR on the 2 black lenses.

About This Camera

Our Technicolor System 3 (or Process 3) (No. 28) was in use from 1927 to 1933. In 1916, the Silver Screen became the Technicolor screen, when this motion picture coloring process was invented. System 3 was based on the techniques of the original 1916 Process 1, but “was developed to eliminate the projection print made of double-cemented prints in favor of a print created by dye imbibition. The Technicolor camera for Process 3 was identical to that for Process 2, simultaneously photographing two consecutive frames of a black-and-white film behind red and green filters.” (Wikipedia)

Films shot with Technicolor System 3 include “The Viking” (1928, Paramount), which was the first feature made entirely in the Technicolor Process 3; and “On with the Show” (1929, Warner Bros.), the first all-taking color feature. We are currently researching the significant filmography of this camera—More Info to Come!

Camera No. 28 is one of the few Technicolor cameras held in a private collection, and is one of the last of the company’s ground-breaking two-color, System 3, dye-imbibition cameras, in use during the 1930s.

“System 3 used separate negatives for the red and green images, from which positive matrices in relief were made which acted like a rubber stamp. These were dyed red and green, and then rolled into contact with a strip of clear film coated with a dye absorbing emulsion.” (amps.net, used with permission)

System 3 moved color from novelty to mainstream and represents a critical technological advancement leading to the later, better known Technicolor three-strip process used for such classics as The Wizard of Oz and Gone with the Wind. The camera and its various accessory items were acquired directly from Technicolor in the mid-1970s and have been in storage ever since.

For More Technicolor Process Information: http://widescreenmuseum.com/oldcolor/ball.htm