The Parvo was a 35mm motion picture camera developed in France by André Debrie . The patent was registered in 1908 by his father, Joseph Dules Debrie . The camera was relatively compact for its time. It was hand-cranked, as were its predecessors. To aid the camera operator in cranking at the correct speed, the camera had a built in tachometer .
2-479: The Parvo held up to 120 metres (390 ft) of film inside without the need for an external film magazine, yielding almost 6 minutes of film when cranked at the standard 16 frames per second silent film rate. It allowed the camera operator to focus the camera lens but – as all other cine cameras of its era – had a side optical viewfinder to be used during actual filming. The Parvo was immensely popular in Europe during
4-519: The silent film era, straight through the 1920s. Directors who relied on the camera included Dziga Vertov , Abel Gance , Leni Riefenstahl , and Sergei Eisenstein . The latter's cinematographer, Eduard Tisse , would use the camera into the sound era, i.e. filming the duelling sequence in Alexander Nevsky . Vertov animated a Debrie Parvo as mechanical protagonist and used it to make several hand-held sequences in his 1929 documentary, Man with
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