{"id":209,"date":"2020-03-13T14:57:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-13T21:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/?p=209"},"modified":"2021-09-29T14:59:52","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T21:59:52","slug":"mitchell-16mm-friction-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/13\/mitchell-16mm-friction-head\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitchell 16mm Friction Head"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Originally introduced in 1946, the Mitchell 16 professional motion picture camera incorporated the features and design that had made Mitchell&#8217;s 35mm cameras so successful. The Mitchell 16 was advertised as a more compact package, well suited to 16mm cinematography. Alongside the camera, Mitchell introduced a full complement of accessories, including a sidefinder, tripod, and friction head like the example shown here. When this unit arrived, the top plate where the camera mounts to the friction head was fractured right down the middle. A new top plate and pan handle were machined and installed to restore the friction head to working condition. We have paired this friction head, serial number 31, with a Mitchell 16 Pro camera package that will soon be available for sale on our website. Another piece of equipment brought back to life!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery aligncenter columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"691\" src=\"https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/mitchell-16-friction-head-4-1024x691.jpg\" alt=\"Mitchell 16mm friction head\" data-id=\"208\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/mitchell-16-friction-head-4-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/mitchell-16-friction-head-4\/\" class=\"wp-image-208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/mitchell-16-friction-head-4-1024x691.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/mitchell-16-friction-head-4-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/mitchell-16-friction-head-4-768x518.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/mitchell-16-friction-head-4-1536x1036.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/mitchell-16-friction-head-4-2048x1382.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/mitchell-16-friction-head-3-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Mitchell 16mm friction head\" data-id=\"207\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/mitchell-16-friction-head-3-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/mitchell-16-friction-head-3\/\" class=\"wp-image-207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/mitchell-16-friction-head-3-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/mitchell-16-friction-head-3-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/mitchell-16-friction-head-3-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/mitchell-16-friction-head-3-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/mitchell-16-friction-head-3-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/mitchell-16-friction-head-3-2048x2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/mitchell-16-friction-head-2-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Mitchell 16mm friction head\" data-id=\"206\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/mitchell-16-friction-head-2-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/mitchell-16-friction-head-2\/\" class=\"wp-image-206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/mitchell-16-friction-head-2-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/mitchell-16-friction-head-2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/mitchell-16-friction-head-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/mitchell-16-friction-head-2-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/mitchell-16-friction-head-2-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/mitchell-16-friction-head-2-2048x2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally introduced in 1946, the Mitchell 16 professional motion picture camera incorporated the features and design that had made Mitchell&#8217;s 35mm cameras so successful. The Mitchell 16 was advertised as a more compact package, well suited to 16mm cinematography. Alongside the camera, Mitchell introduced a full complement of accessories, including a sidefinder, tripod, and friction [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":205,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,77],"tags":[73,92],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-camera-support","category-restoration","tag-friction-head","tag-mitchell-camera-co"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210,"href":"https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions\/210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}