Newman-Sinclair
Newman & Sinclair , London , was a film camera production company produced from 1927 onwards.
The basic model was developed by Arthur Samuel Newman , who had the camera housing made of duralumin , a temperature-resistant light metal . The first model with a 35mm lens was still powered by a wind-up clockwork that could transport 200 feet of film (61 meters). Later models were battery operated. The Newman & Sinclair allowed speeds between 10 and 24 frames per second.
The camera had an adjustable rotary shutter , and fades in and out could be made automatically.
Their robustness, light weight and ease of handling the camera for over thirty years was away as optimum film camera for news reportages and documentaries .
Famous documentary filmmakers such as Robert J. Flaherty , Humphrey Jennings , Damien Parer, and Basil Wright used this camera. Flaherty in particular preferred them to the heavy models of his time, as he had to be independent for his unique Inuit documentary film " Nanuk, the Eskimo " . At the low temperatures he could on the experience of the British Mount Everest - Expedition abandoned. His model had a strong frame made of steel , which, due to its weight, also allowed long focal lengths . With Parer, on the other hand, it was the high temperatures of the Middle East desert or the high humidity of New Guinea that made him use these cameras.
The sharpness of her pictures even allowed for acceptable enlargements for the daily press and publications.
Even in 1971 , Stanley Kubrick was still using models of this camera for Clockwork Orange in a somewhat dubious way: in order to be able to film the suicide attempt of his Alex character credibly, he had six cameras smashed on the pavement until one finally hit the lens down and the desired one Setting delivered.