Alain Tanner interview

• 2018.019.06
• File
• [between 1978 and 1979]

Part of Frank G. Sommers director interviews

File contains a transcribed copy of an interview conducted in Geneva, with Swiss film director Alain Tanner by Toronto Psychiatrist Dr. Frank Sommers, for Sommers' project "The Mind of the Film Director".

Sommers, Frank

Walerian Borowczyk interview

• 2018.019.02
• File
• March 16, 1979

Part of Frank G. Sommers director interviews

File contains a hand-transcribed, copy of an interview conducted with Polish film director Walerian Borowczyk by Toronto Psychiatrist Dr. Frank Sommers, for Sommers' project "The Mind of the Film Director. Also included is a French lang...

Sommers, Frank

Bert Haanstra interview

• 2018.019.03
• File
• June 17, 1978

Part of Frank G. Sommers director interviews

File contains a short, transcribed, copy of an interview conducted with Dutch film director Bert Haanstra by Toronto Psychiatrist Dr. Frank Sommers, for Sommers' project "The Mind of the Film Director. Also included are a filmography an...

Sommers, Frank

Ettore Scola interview

• 2018.019.05
• File
• October 30, 1978

Part of Frank G. Sommers director interviews

File contains a transcribed copy of an interview conducted with Italian film director Ettore Scola by Toronto Psychiatrist Dr. Frank Sommers, for Sommers' project "The Mind of the Film Director. The file also contains 2 photographs of t...

Sommers, Frank

Marianne Ahrne interview

• 2018.019.01
• File
• September 16, 1979

Part of Frank G. Sommers director interviews

File contains recorded and transcribed copies of an interview conducted with Swedish film director Marianne Ahrne and Toronto Psychiatrist Dr. Frank Sommers, for Sommers' project "The Mind of the Film Director. Also included are 2 lette...

Sommers, Frank

Kern-Paillard Bolex B87 A

• 2005.006.19.07
• Item
• [ca. 1961]

Part of Heritage Camera Collection

Item is a Kern-Paillard Bolex B87 A motion-picture 8mm camera with duraluminum body covered in leather. Metal parts are chrome-plated. Manual threading. With a Bolex Declic Handle to hold camera while filming, manufactured by Kern-Paillard between...

Kern-Paillard Bolex B8VS

• 2005.006.19.08
• Item
• [ca. 1958]

Part of Heritage Camera Collection

Item is a Kern-Paillard Bolex B8VS motion-picture camera. Uses 8mm film. When a roll runs through the camera, only half the width of film is exposed. The spool is then reversed and run through again, exposing the other half. When processed, film i...

Bauer C2-A Super

• 2005.006.19.27
• Item
• [1960's]

Part of Heritage Camera Collection

Item consists of a Bauer C2-A Super motion picture camera. It used super 8mm film, which was one of the most popular home movie format for around 20 years. It has a Bauer Vario 1:1.8/7.5-60mm zoom lens, a built-in type-A filter, and a pistol grip....

Polavision Land Camera

• 2005.006.19.47
• Item
• 1977

Part of Heritage Camera Collection

This is a battery driven Super 8 instant movie camera. It took special super 8 film in a Polaroid cartidge that held about 42 minutes. The lens in a Polaroid F1.8/12.5 - 24mm manual zoom lens. It has two flood lights attached - Polavision TWI light.

Kodak Retina Ia

• 2005.006.13.03
• Item
• [between 1951and 1954]

Part of Heritage Camera Collection

Item is a manual focus, folding 35mm camera with Synchro-Compur lens. Made in Germany. An instruction book is included. Made in Germany at Kodak AG.

Ikoflex II camera

• 2005.006.12.01
• Item
• [between 1939 and 1940]

Part of Heritage Camera Collection

Item is a medium format twin lens reflex camera for 6 x 6 cm exposures on 120 format roll film, produced by Zeiss Ikon. Model number 252/16 stamped underneath. Lens is a Triotar 75mm, f3.5 with a compur 1 to 1/300 shutter.

Ihagee Exakta RTL 1000

• 2005.006.11.10
• Item
• [1970]

Part of Heritage Camera Collection

Item is the body of the Exacka model RTL 1000, missing the outer body and the lens. Used as a demonstration object to demonstrate inner working of a single lens reflex camera. The camera includes an Exakta bayonet mount, waist level viewfinder and...

Exakta Varex 500

• 2005.006.11.08
• Item
• [between 1969 and 1972]

Part of Heritage Camera Collection

Item is a postwar model camera, made in occupied East Germany. is possibly a variant of the VX 500 , but not exactly like it. The prism can be removed, shutter speeds are B, Flash, 1/30 to 1/500 sec, double flash sync contact at left side, lens is...

Ihagee Exakta B, Version 4

• 2005.006.11.05
• Item
• [between 1935 and 1937]

Part of Heritage Camera Collection

Item is a single lens reflex camera manufactured by the Ihagee company in Dresden for producing 8 4 x 6.5 cm exposures on 127 roll film. This model was developed alongside the Exakta model A (first appearing in 1933) and has a similar trapezoid de...

Popular pressman

• 2005.006.11.04
• Item
• [between 1909 and 1926]

Part of Heritage Camera Collection

Item is the first reflex camera produced by W. Butcher & Sons Ltd. The wood and black leather camera has interchangeable backs for 3.25 x 4.25 and 4 x.5 plates and also has a Graflex 3.25 x 4.25 inch roll film adaptor. Focusing is waist level ...

Praktica FX3

• 2005.006.11.02
• Item
• [between 1956 and 1959]

Part of Heritage Camera Collection

Item is an 35mm reflex camera with a waist-level viewfinder and a non auto-return mirror. Manufactured in Soviet controlled East Germany, the company and the Desden factory closed after reunification. The lens is a Meyer Gorlitz Domiplan 1:2.8/50mm.

Exakta VX 500

• 2005.006.11.01
• Item
• [between 1969 and 1972]

Part of Heritage Camera Collection

Item is a 35 mm. film camera designed by Karl Nüchterlein and produced by the Ihagee Kamerawerk company in Dresden, Germany. The Exakta has interchangeable lenses, 1/30 - 1/60 Horz. Shutter and an Accura Diamatic 1:2.8 28mm lens attached.

Instamatic stereo camera

• 2005.006.10.08
• Item
• [between 1978 and 1988]

Part of Heritage Camera Collection

Item is a hand-made stereo camera created by attaching two instamatic cameras together (a Kodak X-15 and a Kodak X-15F).

Cambo Passportrait 45

• 2005.006.10.07
• Item
• [ca. 1980]

Part of Heritage Camera Collection

Item is a specialty camera manufactured by CAMBO B.V at Kampen in the Netherlands. Designed specifically for passport photographs, the cameras took 4 instant images at once. The front plate holds four identical Cambonar lenses, all with apertures ...

Fed CTEPEO stereo camera

• 2005.006.10.01
• Item
• [1998]

Part of Heritage Camera Collection

Item is a 35mm stereo camera with CdS metering. Manual or automatic exposure. 24 x 29mm images. Industar-81 F2.8/38mm lenses. Comes with leather pouch, sun shades, small parts, and hard plastic case.

Linhof master Technika 1

• 2005.006.09.01
• Item
• [manufactured between 1956 and 1962]

Part of Heritage Camera Collection

Item is a bellows camera for 2 1/4 x 3 1/4 exposures on sheet or roll film. The lens is mounted on a non Linhof plate and is a substitute - a Schneider Xenar f4.5 105 mm. lens, with a Compur shutter 1-1/250 . Bellows show repair attempt. Cleaned a...

Voigtlander Bessy AK

• 2005.006.08.41
• Item
• 1965

Part of Heritage Camera Collection

Item is a camera for use with 126 film. Includes a swing out AG1 flash reflector in body, automatic parallax correction. Three focusing symbols are visible in finder. In autoflash mode distance coupled to aperture. Prontor-matic V 30-125. Automati...

Agfamatic camera kit

• 2005.006.08.39
• Item
• [196?]

Part of Heritage Camera Collection

Item is a camera box set, complete with accessories. Orange and white cardboard box is printed with "AGFAMATIC 1a FULLY AUTOMATIC 35 mm CAMERA", a b&w illustration of the camera, and a contents list of "...camera, leather case, ...

Ensign Box Camera

• 2005.006.05.81
• Item
• [between 1912 and 1920]

Part of Heritage Camera Collection

Item is an Ensign rollfilm box camera that takes 3.25 x 2.25 inch exposures on 120 film. The camera has two viewfinders, three unlabelled aperture settings, and two shutter speeds.

Coronet Midget camera

• 2005.006.08.07
• Item
• [between 1937 and 1946]

Part of Heritage Camera Collection

Item is a molded walnut Bakelite camera with cast metal hardware and dual lenses. The front metal plate is cast with "CORONET, MIDGET, 16 mm FILM, MADE BY THE CORONET CAMERA CO. BIRMINGHAM, BRITISH PATENTS APPLIED FOR, DESIGN REGISTERED."...

Minox III & matching light meter

• 2005.006.08.02
• Item
• [between 1950 and 1959]

Part of Heritage Camera Collection

Item is one of the smallest cameras the Minox company produced. The original model, designed by Walter Zapp for use while hiking, was made in 1937 in Riga Latvia. Minox subminiatures were used as spy cameras by Nazi spies in World War II, as well ...

Kodak Brownie 127, Model II

• 2005.006.05.52
• Item
• [between 1959 and 1963]

Part of Heritage Camera Collection

Item is an eye-level box camera with Bakelite body and rounded edges. This model features a Dakon lens.

No. 3 Maxim

• 2005.006.05.72
• Item
• [between 1903 and 1920]

Part of Heritage Camera Collection

Item is a leather covered wooden box camera from the days of the first "Brownie" cameras. It uses No. 2A Brownie or No. 2 1/2 Ensign spool film for 6.5x11cm exposures on rollfilm. The camera has a single achromtic lens with a time and in...

J-B Ensign [Junior Box Ensign]

• 2005.006.05.74
• Item
• [ca. 1932]

Part of Heritage Camera Collection

Item is a simple box camera with a leatherette covering, marked as J-B Ensign on the front. The camera uses 2 1/4B (E20) rollfilm for 6x9cm exposures. It has a meniscus lens, a two-speed shutter, and two reflecting type viewfinders.

Gavaert Gevabox 6x9

• 2005.006.05.44
• Item
• [ca. 1950]

Part of Heritage Camera Collection

Item is a Gevaert Gevabox 6x9 box camera that took 6x9 images on 120 film. It was manufactured by L. Gevaert & Cie, a Belgian company that merged with Agfa AG and Bayer AG in 1964. It has a rectangular metal body with chrome edges, a single-sp...

Paxina I

• 2005.006.05.24
• Item
• [ca. 1952]

Part of Heritage Camera Collection

Item is a basic medium format camera for 6 x 6 cm (2.36" x 2.36") exposures on 120 film. Produced by Braun, this was an inexpensive Bakelite camera with a f7.7 75mm lens which allowed for focusing from 1 meter to infinity. The shutter al...

Kodak Brownie 127

• 2005.006.05.13
• Item
• [between 1953 and 1959]

Part of Heritage Camera Collection

Item is an eye-level box camera with Bakelite body and rounded edges. Lens is a Meniscus f 14, 65mm and the shutter is single speed, 1/50th.

Goerz C.P., Anschütz Model I

• 2005.006.04.55
• Item
• [between 1904 and 1926]

Part of Heritage Camera Collection

Item consists of a Goerz C. P. Anschütz Model I strut-folding camera with a focal plane shutter and internally controlled shutter settings. It has a 5" homocentric 1:6.3 Ross London lens. The camera has a leather covering on a wood body. The ...

Foka, folding camera

• 2005.006.04.41
• Item
• 1930-1959

Part of Heritage Camera Collection

Item consists of a Foka folding camera with a F. Deckel-Munchen leaf shutter and a Rodenstock Trinar Anastigmat 1:4.5 f=10.5cm lens. The maker of the shutter, F. Deckel, was a German company based in Munich. The Foka cameras were imported from Ger...

Rio 12C

• 2005.006.04.37
• Item
• (between 1921 andd 1933)

Part of Heritage Camera Collection

Item is a Rio 12C folding camera manufactured by Orionwerk Akt. Ges. Hannover. IBSOR DRP Meyer-Gorlitz Nr. 434172 Anastigmat Trioplan 1/6.3 F=10.5 cm lens. Company existed as Orionwerk from 1921 to 1933.

Folding camera with Ibso shutter

• 2005.006.04.36
• Item
• [1908-1931]

Part of Heritage Camera Collection

Item is a folding (bellows) plate camera with an Ibso shutter . Ibso shutters were manufactured by Gauthier from 1908 until 1931 when Zeiss took over the company and offered faster models. Three blade diaphragm , spring powered, pneumatic exposure...

Folding camera with Compur leaf shutter

• 2005.006.04.35
• Item
• [ca. 1900-1905]

Part of Heritage Camera Collection

Item is a folding (bellows) plate camera with a Compur leaf shutter. Compur leaf shutters were manufactured from 1912 to 1935 when the Compur-Rapid model was released. Shutter is an earlier, dial set model. Item features a collapsing front bellows...

Contessa-Nettel folding camera

• 2005.006.04.34
• Item
• (between 1919 and 1926)

Part of Heritage Camera Collection

Item is a Contessa-Nettel folding/bellows camera. Only the structure of the camera exists, it is missing a lens. The company Contessa-Nettel AG was a German company that existed between the years 1908 and 1919. The company was known for cameras wi...

Voigtlander Bessa II

• 2005.006.04.09
• Item
• [between 1950 and 1956]

Part of Heritage Camera Collection

Item is a folding camera, designed as an updated version of Bessa RF (1936), with housing for coupled rangefinder in chrome instead of black. Synchro-Compur 1/500 shutter. Heliar f3.5.105 lens. 6 x 9 cm prints on 120 roll film.

Ilford multigrade filter kit

• 2005.005.5.031
• Item
• [ca.1980]

Part of Photograph & Film Technology Collection

J. Lizars Challenge camera

• 2005.006.03.02
• Item
• [ca.1905]

Part of Heritage Camera Collection

Item is a luxury wood and brass, self casing folding plate camera with red bellows. Front plate has full tilt, shift and swivel capabilities. Equipped with a 10 1/4 in F 11 Ross lens. Serial # 90191.

Zeiss Ikon Maximar B 207/7

• 2005.006.02.03
• Item
• [after 1914]

Part of Heritage Camera Collection

Item is a high quality folding plate camera with a drop bed style, double extension bellows, rise and fall, plus shift front movements. It came with a brilliant view-finder housing a built in spirit finder and a wire frame finder. The Maximar B 20...

Seneca View Camera

• 2005.006.02.02
• Item
• [ca. 1907]

Part of Heritage Camera Collection

Item is a wooden, tailboard folding field view camera, for use with 13 x 18 cm (5 x 7 inch) dry plates. Field cameras are view cameras that produce studio quality images but are designed to fold down to a more compact, portable size. The camera in...

Jules Carpentier Photo-Jumelle

• 2005.006.01.04
• Item
• [ca. 1890s]

Part of Heritage Camera Collection

Item consists of a Jules Carpentier Photo-Jumelle, a rigid-bodied binocular camera. One lens is for viewing and the other is for taking single exposures. This jumelle-type camera is not a stereo camera. The magazine holds 12 plates that are 4.5 x ...

Ilford Photogrpahic Print Paper

• 2005.005.7.051
• Item
• [ca. 1970]

Part of Photograph & Film Technology Collection

regular bromide black and white paper, 8 x 10 - Glossy - unexposed. In opened original light-safe package

Wooden field development tank

• 2005.005.5.014
• Item
• [ca.1900]

Part of Photograph & Film Technology Collection

Gossen sixtino

• 2005.005.4.010
• Item
• [ca. 1960]

Part of Photograph & Film Technology Collection

Item is a reflected and incident light meter powered by selenium photo cell.

Gossen sixtomat electronic

• 2005.005.4.009
• Item
• 1968

Part of Photograph & Film Technology Collection

Item is a reflected light and incident light meter with diffuser; powered by 2 Mallory MN 625 G mercury cells.

Polaroid meter 625

• 2005.005.4.005
• Item
• 1955

Part of Photograph & Film Technology Collection

Item is a selinium cell type light meter. Comes with presentation box. Working condition. Used with Polaroid 110A/B cameras.

Ilford photo-electric exposure meter model b

• 2005.005.4.002
• Item
• [between 1937 and 1949]

Part of Photograph & Film Technology Collection

Item is an Ilford Photo-electric Exposure meter. Comes with leather case and box. Includes user guide.

Photoflash 18

• 2005.005.3.038
• Item

Part of Photograph & Film Technology Collection

Rodenstock el-omegar 50mm f3.5

• 2005.005.2.033
• Item
• [ca. 1990s]

Part of Photograph & Film Technology Collection

Item is a lens manufactured by the Omega Division of Optische Werke G. Rodenstock. Plastic case is included.

Studio Camera Lens

• 2005.005.2.020
• Item
• 1875

Part of Photograph & Film Technology Collection

Item is a lens for a large studio camera with a built in iris.

B.P.M. bellows

• 2005.005.1.036
• Item
• [1970s]

Part of Photograph & Film Technology Collection

Item is a set of bellows with a mount adapter used for macro photography and copying film.

Butterfield Photographic Manufacturing Corporation

Lanterna Magica

• 2018.09.10.01
• Item
• ca. 1895

Part of Bass Stereoscopic Photography Collection

Item is a child's, oil lamp magic lantern set manufactured by German company Ernst Planck. The set contains a tin projector, two-part lens, oil lamp, and 12 lantern slides. Instructions for use are printed in German, French, and English on th...

Achromatic stereoscope viewer

• 2018.09.02.041
• Item
• [ca.1860]

Part of Bass Stereoscopic Photography Collection

Item is a wooden and brass stereoscope with wooden hood cover. This object was used to view two nearly identical photographs, or stereographs, as one three dimensional image. The stereograph would be placed in the sliding card holder and adjusted ...

Our Ilyich

• 2008.005.07.048
• Item
• 1990

Part of Leniniana Collection

Two sets of 12 posters, each set is missing poster 10 and has a duplicate of poster 9 instead. The posters illustrate the timeline of Lenin's life, with subjects including: The Ulyanov Family, Childhood and Youth, For the Happiness of the Peo...

Andrusych, Nina Oleksiyivna

Voigtländer Vito BL

• 2005.006.13.88
• Item
• [manufactured between 1956 and 1960]

Part of Heritage Camera Collection

Item consists of a Voigtländer Vito BL 35mm viewfinder camera. It has a Voigtländer Color-Skopar 1:3.5/50mm lens and a Prontor-SVS leaf shutter. It is similar to the Vito B, but features a built-in exposure meter.

blue stamp albums with Ukrainian and Russian language stamps

• 2008.005.08.001
• Item
• [19--]

Part of Leniniana Collection

blue, cloth-bound, hard cover albums with thick cardboard pages. Cover bears image of rocket and stamp perforated edge and reads: stamps. The pages include horizontal plastic strips to hold postage stamps in place on the pages. Each page is covere...

Photolab envelopes

• 2007.006.12.096
• Item
• [19--]

Part of Gordon Meinecke fonds

Packaging for photographs, used by various photolabs or photographic developers to deliver finished prints to the consumer. All used, open and empty.

Kodak Canada Inc.

Assorted Cabinet Cards

• 2017.010.12.008
• Item
• [ ca.1866-1914]

Part of Historical Photographic Processes Collection

Cabinet card by a variety of publishers. Mostly portraits with some landscapes, and a comedy.13 cards by S. H. Ray5 cards by Notman & Sandham5 cards by J. W. Grealy2 cards by Wm. H. Leonard2 cards by Beazell2 cards by Ray & Maxwell2 cards ...

Rodenstock Photographic Lenses

• 2005.003.1.09
• File
• 1929

Part of Nicholas M. and Marilyn A. Graver Photographic Publications Collection

File contains catalogues and price lists published by Optical Works G. Rodenstock, Munich detailing the universal lenses and shutters offered by the company.

Optische Werke G. Rodenstock

Gebrauchsanweisung für CineNizo 8 E

• 2005.003.2.25.01
• Item
• [ca.1933]

Part of Nicholas M. and Marilyn A. Graver Photographic Publications Collection

Item is a user manual for the Cine Nizo 8 E video camera. The Cine Nizo was the first 8mm camera for sale in Europe. A smaller folded pamphlet inserted into the book gives exposure tables. The back of the booklet advertises the Nizo-Projecktor 8 T...

Niezoldi & Krämer, GmbH

Minox tripod adapter

• 2005.005.1.005
• Item
• [ca.1965]

Part of Photograph & Film Technology Collection

Minox GmbH

Minox reflex viewfinder model B

• 2005.005.1.006
• Item
• [ca.1965]

Part of Photograph & Film Technology Collection

Minox GmbH

Minox pocket tripod with leather purse

• 2005.005.1.004
• Item
• [ca.1965]

Part of Photograph & Film Technology Collection

Minox GmbH

Minox binocular attachment

• 2005.005.1.003
• Item
• [ca.1965]

Part of Photograph & Film Technology Collection

Minox GmbH

Minox Me 1 electronic flash

• 2005.005.3.005
• Item
• [ca.1969]

Part of Photograph & Film Technology Collection

Minox GmbH

Minox Agfapan 100 professional film

• 2005.005.7.004
• Item
• [1987-1988]

Part of Photograph & Film Technology Collection

Agfa-Gevaert N.V.

Minox daylight developing tank

• 2005.005.5.023
• Item
• [after 1968]

Part of Photograph & Film Technology Collection

This item is a daylight developing tank, manufactured by Minox and made of bakelite material. The tank comes with two rings to be used in the development of shorter 15 and 36 exposure lengths of film introduced in 1968 and 1969. The thermometer is...

Assorted Cartes de Visite (Portraits)

• 2017.010.15.003
• Item
• [ca. 1854-1870]

Part of Historical Photographic Processes Collection

Items are portraits, primarily of individuals but there are also a few of pairs and families1 Cartes de Visite by Fowler & Co.6 Cartes de Visite by Fowler & Oliver11 Cartes de Visite by S. H. Ray1 Cartes de Visite by Daniel Jones1 Cartes d...

Dinner in a cathedral

• 2008.001.1481
• Item
• ca. 1900

Part of Lorne Shields Historical Photograph Collection

Item consists of a photograph mounted on white card with black letterpress at bottom edge, reading from left to right "J. Russell & Sons/ Photographers", "By special appointment to/ His Majesty the King.", "17, Baker S...

J. Russell & Sons

Ilford commercial ortho films medium speed

• 2007.006.12.034
• Item
• [ca. 1920]

Part of Gordon Meinecke fonds

"Ilford commercial ortho films medium speed" printed on box label in brown ink with green and brown graphics; stamped "1 dozen," "7x5," and serial number "C06537A 26." The box is empty except for a cardboard...

Ilford Limited