a) 60 mm film

This gauge was used for a brief period in the early history of cinema by operators of the Chronophotographe, a camera devised by the French camera engineer Georges Demenÿ for the then emergent cinema entrepreneur, Léon Gaumont.

Among the few operators to use this model of camera was Oscar Depue, who whilst working as a cameraman for the celebrated travel lecturer, Burton Holmes, shot a number of films of ethnographic interest, including footage, now lost, of the Hopi Snake Dance and a Navajo Tournament in 1898.

Although Depue devised a new and much larger magazine for the camera, which  increased the running time of a roll of film considerably, he gave up on it in 1902 on account of the difficulty of getting hold of the 60mm stock. 

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