Reorganizing the Showroom 2024

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The new shelving unit is completed at long last! And the original shelving unit has been painted to match (somewhat). We have spent the last couple of days toting barges, lifting bales, and lugging cameras to and fro as we attempted to reorganize the showroom. It’s still a work in progress, but we are too tired to do anymore this week. I didn’t realize I had so many Nagras! Some of these pieces haven’t been cleaned and serviced yet, but they are all still looking for good homes. If you see something of interest, feel free to make an appointment to stop by.

The showroom at CinemaGear looking from the front door into the room. You can see a set of wall shelves stocked with cameras, gyro heads, and Nagra tape recorders, along with two sets of free standing shelves filled with cameras made by the Mitchell Camera Corporation, Arriflex, the William P. Stein Co., and some Mitchell geared heads. A metal tripod stands in the foreground against the front shelving unit.
The showroom at CinemaGear looking from the far door into the machine shop. You can see a set of wall shelves stocked with cameras, gyro heads, and Nagra tape recorders, along with two sets of free standing shelves filled with cameras made by the Mitchell Camera Corporation, Bell & Howell, Arriflex, Fries Engineering, and the Lubin Manufacturing Co. To the left, you can see part of a blue Twentieth Century Fox Cine Simplex camera.
The showroom at CinemaGear looking from the front window, showing a closer look at the wall shelves. The top shelf contains a row of 8mm and 16mm cameras, a matte box, and some camera magazines. The second shelf contains a row of Bell & Howell Eyemo, Bell & Howell Filmo, Bolex, Arriflex, Victor Animatograph Co., and Kodak 16mm and 35mm motion picture cameras. The third shelf contains some Arriflex 35mm motion picture cameras, four Nagra tape recorders, one Tandberg tape recorder, and an Arriflex 16mm contact printer. The bottom shelf contains an Arriflex 35mm camera, a Mitchell 16mm SS camera and sound recording mixing console, a Maurer model 05 16mm camera, an Auricon CM-74 16mm camera, a Mitchell friction head, two Akeley Gyro heads on high hats, and an Acme Model 6 35mm camera. Below are a series of equipment cases, a partially assembled Mitchell BNCR camera, a Peter Lisand body brace, some cables, and a Mitchell KF8 aerial reconnaissance camera. You can also see the corner of our new shelving unit in the right corner, and part of a glass case that contains lenses in the foreground.