Mitchell Camera

The Mitchell Camera Movement was utilized for animation in George Lucas Star Wars films.

Mitchell Camera Corporation was privately and quietly purchased in mid 1929 by William Fox of Fox Film Studios, just before the Great Depression began, though George Mitchell continued working with the company until he retired in the 1950s.

Although William Fox had lost control and possession of his own Fox Film Studios and theaters empire in March of 1930, he apparently quietly retained possession of the Mitchell Camera Company, as his two daughters still owned the Mitchell Camera Company when it closed in 1979.

Mitchell also made a pin-registered background plate projector with a carbon arc lamphouse which was synchronized with the film camera.

[5] In 1944, unable to purchase Mitchell cameras in Pounds Sterling, the Rank Organisation in the UK exploited a loophole (the Mitchell company had failed to register a patent in the UK for the NC) and had the Newall company produce 200 cameras known as the Newall NC.

Production (sound) models in 16mm, 35mm (4- and 2-perf) and 65mm (5-perf) served as a basis for early Panavision cameras in those gauges.