Courtesy of Robert C. Weisgerber

The venerable camera 2, first of the production cameras assembled for Todd-AO. The second was camera 1, and don't ask me how the numbering came about. David Niven and Sir Cedric Hardwick are perched atop an elephant during the India segment of Around the World in 80 Days. The bugeye lens is now in the WideScreen Museum's cinema optics collection, the camera was long ago cannibalized for large format special effects work.


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