Chronicle of a Camera: The Arriflex 35 in North America, 1945-1972

"Chronicle of a Camera should be essential reading for anyone interested in how independent narrative cinema became a reality in the United States."

--Charles V. Eidsvik, author of Cineliteracy: Film Among the Arts

This volume provides a history of the most consequential 35mm motion picture camera introduced in North America in the quarter century following the Second World War: the Arriflex 35. It traces the North American history of this camera from 1945 through 1972--when the first lightwe...