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CINE NIZO
9.5MM CINE CAMERAS
AND PROJECTORS
by Grahame L. Newnham
Cine Nizo, Neizoldi &
Kramer, |
The company certainly also produced 16mm cine cameras, there is a 16mm model 'D' listed in a Westminster Photographic advert in the Home Movies & Home Talkies magazine dated September 1933. The description sounds a bit like the 9.5mm model 'M' listed below.
Advert in Home Movies & Home Talkies magazine March1934
(whilst I have found various adverts in UK magazines for the cine
cameras
so far, I have failed to find any for the early cine projectors!)
1920s / 1930s
Advert in "The Amateur Cinematographers' Handbook"
- Robert Dykes, early 1930s
THE ORIGINAL CINE NIZO CINE PROJECTOR - MULTI-GAUGE (about 1929?)
More information needed - please!
THE CINE NIZO MODEL 'J' 9.5MM CINE PROJECTOR (about 1931?)
Another 9.5mm Cine Nizo cine projector - probably a Model 'J'
This photo of this better example is labelled Model 'J'
We can see it is motor driven with a single sprocket for film feed and take-up. The spools seem to be 400 foot / 120 metre. Obviously indirect lighting maybe with a dropper resistance above the lamphouse. Any more information will be appreciated!
THE CINE NIZO MODEL 'C' 9.5MM CINE PROJECTOR (about 1931?)
At least I have a couple of photographs of the model 'C'; so we know that one or two examples are still in collectors' hands in the UK! This quite largish machine has the typical Cine Nizo fluted lamphouse top. It seems to be designed to run on 110 volts (mostly standard in European countries in the 1930s, except the UK!) It takes up to 100 metre / 300 foot spools, has a geared hand rewind on the feed spool arm; feed and take-up sprockets; reverse run and completely removable film gate assembly. It appears from the mention in the Group 9.5 magazine number 74, that access to the main drive belt of the machine may be rather complicated.
This example is missing the fluted lamphouse top and the
spool arms,
but we can see the cam and claw arrangement.
A better looking Nizo Model 'C ' 9.5mm cine projector -
(photo in the Group 9.5 magazine no. 74)
(the nameplate just says 'Nizo' - not 'Cine Nizo')
THE CINE NIZO MODEL 'H' 9.5MM CINE PROJECTOR (about 1937?)
9.5mm Cine Nizo cine projector - model 'H' - thanks to Graham
Sinden for this photo
Looks rather a nice piece of kit! Again, the projectors seem to just be badged 'Nizo', whilst the cameras are badged 'Cine Nizo'.
THE CINE NIZO MODEL 'A' 9.5MM CINE CAMERA (about 1930)
Possibly the first Cine Nizo 9.5mm cine camera -
marked 'Model 'A'
This example fitted with a 17mm f3.5 fixed focus lens
Rear of the 9.5mm Cine Nizo model 'A ' cine camera
can anyone identify the missing bits please!
The 9.5mm Cine Nizo model 'A' camera open - sprocekt feed and
take-up - obvioosly takes the Pathé 'P' film charger
We have keen collector Ashley Hughes to thank for these photos of his 9.5mm Cine Nizo model "A" cine camera. (At least Cine Nizo clearly marked the model of their cine cameras inside the works!). We can also spot a serial number 84829. Obviusly similar to later 9.5mm cine cameras of this type, we can see the footage (or metres!) counter on the side of the camera. In this model the viewfinder is inside the camera body - later designs seem to have had an external viewfinder.
One of the side fitments appears to be for a backwind handle, again retained for later models. Another feature of later models was the instant 32 frames / second speed change; maybe one of the rear buttons was for this feature on this first model.
It would be great to find an advert for this model to discover the main features. It appears the lens was fixed, not interchangeable.
THE CINE NIZO MODEL 'R' 9.5MM CINE CAMERA (about 1934)
Photo from the French ebay web-site
More photos from the French ebay web-site
This simple cine camera appears in the above photograph using the 'Eumig' 9.5mm film charger which contained the usual approx. 8.2metres / 28 foot of film. I guess it would accept any 9.5mm 'P' type film charger. This is confirmed by the fact that the 'footage' (well 'metreage') counter is calibrated to 9 metres. It is fitted with what appears to be an interchangeable f2.9 20mm lens. Typical serial number 90824.
THE CINE NIZO MODEL 'K'AND 'K3' 9.5MM CINE CAMERAS (about 1933)
The upmarket 9.5mm K3 cine camera had a triple lens turret which I guess must have taken 'C' mount lenses. It also boasted 'slow motion' (filming speeds 8 to 64 frames/sec), sprocket feed and hand crank possibility. Film loading was spools up to 30 metre / 100 foot. The 'K' version had just a single lens - typically a Cinar f1.5 1 inch / 25mm lens. Other lenses offered included an f2.9 Stenheil Cassar; f1.5 Meyer Plasmat and f1.4 Zeiss Biotar or Leitz Hektor. A typical serial number for the single lens version is: 198138.
The Cine Nizo 9.5mm cine camera model 'K' - single lens
Advert in the Home Movies & Home Talkies magazine - September
1933
Review of the K3 triple lens turret 9.5mm Cine Nizo in Home
Movies & Home Talkies magazine Sept 1933
Really quality 9.5mm cine cameras, but at a really high price! More likely to have been popular in the 16mm film size at those prices!
THE CINE NIZO MODEL 'F' 9.5MM CINE CAMERA (about 1933)
The model 'F' 9.5mm cine camera had filming speeds of 16 & 32fps, 'P' charger loading, continuous run, provision for hand cranked limited backwind, and was offered with an f3 Trianar, f2.8 Steinheil Cassar or an f1.5 focussing lens. One example I have is fitted with an f3.5 fixed focus 20mm Meyer lens - serial number 133386; another example I have is fitted with a Meyer Gorlitz Trioplan f2.7 20mm lens - serial number 136578. Another example has the focussing Hugo Meyer Plasmat f1.5 25mm lens - serial number 134576.
Advert in the Home Movies & Home Talkies
magazine - May1934
My Cine Nizo model 'F' 9.5mm cine camera f2.7 Meyer
- can't find it!
Another 9.5mm Cine Nizo model ' F'
Yet another Cine Nizo Model 'F'
THE CINE NIZO MODEL 'M' 9.5MM CINE CAMERA (about 1933)
POST WAR (1945 ON)
Moving forwards datewise; by the 1950s, Nizo (the full 'Cine Nizo' seems to have been abandoned), were offering high quality 8mm cine cameras and projectors. A quick look on ebay will show that much of their top quality German made cine quipment was available in the UK. However, I don't think that any further 9.5mm cine equipment was manufactured.
By the 1960s it seems that Braun had acquired the Nizo name and began manufacturing quality cine equipment in std 8mm and later Super 8mm.
I would be most grateful for any extra details or information about Cine Nizo 9.5mm movie equipment! !
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