Film Cameras: A brief history, and stellar images created with it

No. 3A AUTOGRAPHIC KODAK Model C  | 1914-1934
Between 1912 and 1917, a young backyard inventor by the name of Henry J Gaisman was granted several patents for photographic cameras. These improvements allowed the user to “write” a brief caption permanently on the film through a small window in the back of the camera, most importantly, at the time the picture was taken. Gaisman stated that his work arose from the fact that “it annoyed him to return from a vacation trip with pictures that he could not identify”, an irritation familiar to most of us who have taken more than a couple of snapshots. In July 1914, Eastman Kodak Ltd paid Gaisman the “remarkable” sum of $300,000 for the patent rights. Within three months, several Kodak roll-film camera models (1A, 3 and 3A) were on sale with autographic film cartridges capable of taking 10 postcard size exposures.