This movie camera was introduced on the market in 1955. It was equipped with three lenses interchangeable. It is compact, light and easy to handle. The body is in metal covered with brown leather.

Anecdote – Did you know that…?

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Charles L. Bronson had acquired his movie camera only a few weeks before the assassination, so consequently he was not very familiar with its technical specifications. The day of the assassination he had rotated its lens turret into the wide angle mode instead of telephoto, by mistake! This manipulation mistake allowed Bronson to capture, for just a few seconds, a much wider view than he had intended, thus including the sixth floor window of the Texas School Book Depository, the one where the sniper was supposed to be. Bronson had confused the actual length of the lenses mounted on its turret with the focal length of the two lenses. Indeed, paradoxically (and opposite to still cameras and also the majority of the movie cameras), the telephoto lens on the Keystone K35 is shorter than the wide angle lens. Therefore he intended to use telephoto but mistakenly chose the longest lens, which was the wide angle lens.

The two lenses side by side The "long" wide angle lens and the "short" telephoto.

Footage indicator - Winding crank - Starting button Frame rate selector (12, 16, 24 and 48fps.)

Door latch and f-stop guide.

Front view, the three lenses turret. Back view, the pinhole viewfinder.

The f-stop guide (Film's specifications sheet is inserted at left.)

Manufacturer's plate. Camera model - SN - Manufacture's location.

Detail - The pull knob for aiming in wide angle mode (click to enlarge and see animation.)