Kodak Brownie

This is an early age 8 mm camera in Regular 8 format. The way it works is it runs a special 16 mm wide film (with perforations on both sides. The film stock is only exposed on one side, and after filming, the film spool is turned over, and filmed over it again to expose the other half. When it's sent out to processing, the film footage was spliced in half, and glued one end to the start of the other to make a 3 mm long footage. The 8 mm film was further developed to widen the image area, and add sound. The Super 8 format was created similar to the Super 16 format created out of Regular 16 for 16 mm cameras. Other improvements in 8mm format was reflex viewing, through the lens exposure metering, and later interchangeable lenses in Beaulieu, and Leicina.

The spool in regular 8 cameras were turned over at end of roll to expose the other side of film stock. When sent out to processing, the film was spliced in half and bond together to produce the full 3 min footage.