OK, so a web site dedicated solely to an inanimate object like a 40 year old 16mm camera may sound a tad strange, but so be it. I'm a big fan of the camera so I'm making a web site for it.The NPR was really the first of the so-called cinema verite motion picture cameras. The first to offer factory-installed cableless crystal sync sound shooting and the first camera to ever be modified for Super-16. Today, the Eclair NPR 16mm camera has taken second fiddle to cameras like the Arriflex SR's and the Aaton's. While it is still often regarded as a good filmmakers or film students camera, it is not used as often today for high-end motion picture productions like documentaries, TV newsmagazines or for blow-ups to 35mm. Not like the way it used to be. In fact, you cannot open an American Cinematographer magazine from the late 1960's through all of the 1970's and not find it packed with articles about films being made using the Eclair NPR camera. Rugged, dependable, adaptable, reliable... all words used to describe this most prolific filmmaking tool.
Come with me back in time and learn about
a camera that made filmmaking history.
By the way, if any of you have any information you would like to share about your own experiences with the NPR...I'd like to hear from you. If you've made a film with it, or have a custom widget you've designed, whatever...I'd like to hear from you. Of, if you know of someone who was connected with Eclair either in the USA or in Europe or to the success of the NPR in any way at all, please give me their name and contact information. I would like to make this site as complete and accurate as possible. A lot of time has passed since the heydey of the NPR and people have moved, retired or even passed on. As I'm able to speak with people and gather their thoughts and recollections, I will include that information in the web site.
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