[Leica] help with identification --2--

[Thinkofcole at aol.com (Thinkofcole@aol.com)]

Here's more info on the Web about the Sept camera, covering some of the  
same 
info I sent earlier in French: 
"The first commercially successful spring-motor drive camera capable of  
taking still exposures on cine film was the French-made Debrie Sept, a  
combination cine and still camera, introduced in 1922.  The Sept camera  
produced 
half-frame size photographs on 35mm cine film and was capable of taking  
stills and 
movies.  The camera could also be adapted for use as a a movie  projector. 
The Sept camera was based on a patent purchased by Debrie from the Turin,  
Italy Fact company.  Fact had introduced the patented Autocinephot camera a  
few 
years earlier.  The Autocinephot did not sell well.  But in its  improved 
incarnation, the Sept, manufactured and marketed by Debrie, it was  quite 
successful, selling for around twenty years." 
regards, bob cole