219. Poirot: Ciné-Kodak "Erymanthian Boar" Magazine 16mm Camera, 1936-1945
atelier ying, nyc.
Due to its features and rarity, the Ciné-Kodak Magazine, a popular model, is the best for my design.
Agatha Christie's set of short stories, "the Labors of Hercules", may be a minor work from her oeuvre, but it still contains layers of complexity and a multitude of innovations characteristic of her novels.
Poirot is considering retirement, and is enamored with these labors, as a parallel to his own swan song. The fourth story, the Erymanthian Boar, takes place at a vacation resort on a mountain peak in Switzerland, where a form of 'locked room mystery' takes place.
The story's few prominent features are transferred to the Ciné-Kodak Magazine, which becomes a writer's creativity tool made for Christie, as is annotated on the drawing.
The camera kit comes supplied with two funicular models, a sento model and an atelier model. By adjusting the funicular on its rails along the viewfinder path, you can make a quasi-haiku finder (as described on some of my other designs).
Film magazines (the kodak has a purse shape throughout) are filled with 20-foot reams of paper strip upon which the eccentric Christie may jot down her story ideas as well as household information like shopping lists and appointments, something she actually did in her published diaries. The rolls of paper metaphorically recall a prominent clue in the Christie story, the bandages on one of the suspects.
The heliograph, also from the story, detaches from the camera body and is 25mm in diameter (exactly matching the Kodak Anagstimat lens) with a 5mm sighting aperture. To increase the range of the heliograph, you can attach an optional larger external flash (converted) to give a range of well over 125 miles. A further expansion of this design may allow the heliograph to be attached to the camera while in use, making the contraption seem like a sextant.
The cowhide case has additional storage for a kind of Tiffin box for an English cream tea set for Christie.
None of the features above alter the original antique movie camera in any way. So the innovative mystery writer can also film establishing shots and perhaps quickly improvised staged scenes for novels.
Please see my small Agatha Christie album on Flickr. I have more designs in my notebooks to upload in the future.
Design, concepts, text and drawing are copyright 2014 by David Lo.
219. Poirot: Ciné-Kodak "Erymanthian Boar" Magazine 16mm Camera, 1936-1945
atelier ying, nyc.
Due to its features and rarity, the Ciné-Kodak Magazine, a popular model, is the best for my design.
Agatha Christie's set of short stories, "the Labors of Hercules", may be a minor work from her oeuvre, but it still contains layers of complexity and a multitude of innovations characteristic of her novels.
Poirot is considering retirement, and is enamored with these labors, as a parallel to his own swan song. The fourth story, the Erymanthian Boar, takes place at a vacation resort on a mountain peak in Switzerland, where a form of 'locked room mystery' takes place.
The story's few prominent features are transferred to the Ciné-Kodak Magazine, which becomes a writer's creativity tool made for Christie, as is annotated on the drawing.
The camera kit comes supplied with two funicular models, a sento model and an atelier model. By adjusting the funicular on its rails along the viewfinder path, you can make a quasi-haiku finder (as described on some of my other designs).
Film magazines (the kodak has a purse shape throughout) are filled with 20-foot reams of paper strip upon which the eccentric Christie may jot down her story ideas as well as household information like shopping lists and appointments, something she actually did in her published diaries. The rolls of paper metaphorically recall a prominent clue in the Christie story, the bandages on one of the suspects.
The heliograph, also from the story, detaches from the camera body and is 25mm in diameter (exactly matching the Kodak Anagstimat lens) with a 5mm sighting aperture. To increase the range of the heliograph, you can attach an optional larger external flash (converted) to give a range of well over 125 miles. A further expansion of this design may allow the heliograph to be attached to the camera while in use, making the contraption seem like a sextant.
The cowhide case has additional storage for a kind of Tiffin box for an English cream tea set for Christie.
None of the features above alter the original antique movie camera in any way. So the innovative mystery writer can also film establishing shots and perhaps quickly improvised staged scenes for novels.
Please see my small Agatha Christie album on Flickr. I have more designs in my notebooks to upload in the future.
Design, concepts, text and drawing are copyright 2014 by David Lo.