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1940 Camera Stock Photos

Browse 1,180 1940 camera photos and images available, or start a new search to explore more photos and images.

smiling equestrian couple both are wearing jodhpurs hacking jackets & boots while sitting on a rail fence the woman is waving the man is shooting movies. - 1940 camera stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

Smiling Equestrian Couple Both Are Wearing Jodhpurs Hacking Jackets & Boots While Sitting On A Rail Fence The Woman Is Waving The Man Is Shooting Movies.

Women, 1940, Retro Style

16mm Silent-Pro movie camera manufactured by J. A. Maurer Inc of New York, circa 1940. It is a type 506-A, serial number 142.

Movie Camera, Film Industry

Man on the rooftop of a building holding a Graflex Speed Graphic press camera, circa 1940.

Smile For The Camera

Movie camera, circa 1940.

16mm Sound movie camera manufactured by J. A. Maurer Inc of New York, circa 1940. It is a type 501-C, serial number 227.

Film Industry, Movie Camera

couple on sailing boat, man holding tiller, woman filming with movie camera. (photo by h. armstrong roberts/retrofile/getty images) - 1940 camera stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

Couple on sailing boat, man holding tiller, woman filming with movie camera. (Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts/Retrofile/Getty Images)

Retro Style, People, Couple - Relationship

Photo of renowned film director Alfred Hitchcock sitting in front of a large "Vistavision" movie camera. Undated photograph.

Director Alfred Hitchcock

Alfred Hitchcock, Movie Camera

The large, unwieldy 'Facile' camera used by photographer Paul Martin, in his youth, and the more compact, modern version. The leather case was of the...

Camera Comparison

Group of eager photographers ready their cameras for action.

Press Gentlemen

Archival, Photographer

Tennis player Mary Hardwick of Great Britain forehand return action is captured using a Speedray Camera during an indoor practice session on 19th...

Tennis player Mary Hardwick

New York City, 1940

young man smiling at camera, sitting at steering wheel of convertible car. - 1940 camera stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

Young Man Smiling At Camera, Sitting At Steering Wheel Of Convertible Car.

1940s 1950s SMILING WOMAN LOOKING AT CAMERA FALLEN LYING IN SNOW WITH WOOD SKIS AND BAMBOO POLES

1940s 1950s SMILING WOMAN...

Ski, 1930-1939, Skiing

Pair of world famous dancers, Alexandra Danilova and Frederick Franklin, strike a pose for the camera, New York, New York, circa 1940.

Danilova and Franklin

New York City, 1940

In the 1940s. A man is filming with a amateur film camera. The film was then developed and shown on a film projector on a fold up screen at home. The...

In the 1940s. A man is filming with a amateur film camera. The film was then developed and shown on a ...

Movie Camera, Old-fashioned

United States Naval Reserve Lieutenant Ray Kellogg shoots film footage from his perch on the tail of a German plane shot down near Bizerte, Tunisia,...

Kellogg Photographs Plane

USA, Airplane, World War II

Moroccan Sultan, 1940. In his harem he has four wives. But he would not allow them to be seen. It is surprising that he gave permission for...

Moroccan Sultan, 1940

Photographer holding a Magic Eye Camera at an athletics event, circa 1940. Developed by Joseph A Sprague, and manufactured by the National Cine...

Magic Eye Camera

American Lieutenant Francis P. Mulhair holds a movie camera as he stands under a damaged coastal defense gun, Viareggio, Italy, mid 1940s.

Posing With A Broken Coastal Gun

Movie Camera, Army Soldier

An American-made Argus C3 35mm film rangefinder camera with a Cintar 50mm f3.5 lens and flash attachment is seen in this 2009 Healdsburg, California,...

Vintage & Antique Photography Equipment

woman n apron smiling at camera as she is hanging laundry on clothesline near backyard fence. - 1940 camera stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

Woman n Apron Smiling At Camera As She Is Hanging Laundry On Clothesline Near Backyard Fence.

Laundry, Outdoors, Women

1940s 1950s SMILING WOMAN LOOKING AT CAMERA ON SKIS WITH CAP AND QUILTED SKI JACKET WITH BOTH HANDS ON HIPS

1940s 1950s SMILING WOMAN...

Skiing, Ski, Fashion

This behind-the-scenes photograph shows cameramen and the entire crew on a take for an office scene, Hollywood, California, circa 1940.

Making Movies Front Office

Royal Air Force photographer takes aerial pictures in the RAF School of photography.

RAF Photographer

An RAF Corporal instructing two aerial photography trainees in an Anson aircraft at the Royal Air Force School of Photography.

Air Photography

Man on the rooftop of a building holding a Graflex Speed Graphic press camera, circa 1940.

Smile For The Camera

Filming in the 1940s. A military film is being produced and filmmaker Gösta Roosling is mounting the filmroll into the camera. He has a swedish army...

Filming in the 1940s. A military film is being produced and filmmaker Gösta Roosling is mounting the f...

Woman operating a television camera, 1940s.

Camera Operator

Pictured: Broadcaster Lowell Thomas --

The Sunoco Newscast with Lowell Thomas - Season 1

Television Show, 1940

Photographer Philip Townsend during a photo shoot, April 30th, 1960.

Philip Townsend

Photography Themes, Photography, Street

American musician Frank Zappa outside the Royal Albert Hall in London, UK, 15th February 1971. He is protesting the cancellation of his planned...

Frank Zappa Cancelled

Royal Albert Hall, Movie Camera

Woodwardt 130402 Nichols Hardware store in downtown Purcellivlle, VA. A hardware store that has barley changed in 88 years. There was a huge fire in...

DATE:09/06/2002 SLUG:LD-HARDWARE CREDIT:TRACY A WOODWARD/TWP

Woodwardt 130402 Nichols Hardware store in downtown Purcellivlle, VA. A hardware store that has barley changed in 88 years. There was a huge fire in...

DATE:09/06/2002 SLUG:LD-HARDWARE CREDIT:TRACY A WOODWARD/TWP

Gertrude Stein and Alice B Toklas sitting looking at camera, circa 1940s. .

Gertrude And Alice

Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas

Portrait of American photographer Weegee as he sits behind the steering wheel of a car, circa 1940.

Weegee Behind The Wheel

Mature man pointing towards camera

Mature man pointing towards camera

Pointing, Desk, Men

Engraving depicting a photograph taken from Emile Wenz's a French photographer and pioneer of aerial photography, camera-carrying kite. Dated 19th...

A photograph taken from Emile Wenz's camera-carrying kite.

Geoffrey Malins, 1886-1940, cinematographer, seen here in the fighting line during World War One. From The Pageant of the Century, published 1934

Geoffrey Malins, 1886-1940, cinematographer, seen here in the fighting line during World War One

World War II. Invasion of France. German operator shooting the departure of the English army during the capture of Dunkirk, May-June 1940.

World War II. Invasion of

British Labour politician and social reformer George Lansbury , the MP for Bow and Bromley and First Commissioner of Works, makes a film about...

George Lansbury

George Lansbury

Fitter mounts lenses made for cine cameras in to their steel barrels. Innovation and consistent technical quality lead to Taylor-Hobson becoming one...

An elderly worker assembles cine lenses, Taylor-Hobson, 1953.

Using a huge spherical polishing disc, a Taylor Hobson worker finishes a camera lens. Innovation and consistent technical quality lead to...

An operator polishes a lens on large rotary disc, Taylor-Hobson, 1953.

An instructor observes a female worker turning a glass segment on a small lathe, later the segment will be polished to make a camera lens. Innovation...

Female lens maker in training, Taylor Hobson, 1953.

Colour photograph taken from the Kodak Collection at the National Museum of Photography, Film & Television.

Woman wearing an evening dress posing for the camera, c 1940s.

Photographic Print

Snapshot photograph of a woman at the seaside taken in Britain by an unknown photgrapher. The woman, posing on a breakwater, wears a bold floral...

Woman posing in swimsuit on a breakwater, c 1940.

John Desmond Bernal founded the science of molecular biology and pioneered X-ray crystallography. He did important work on the structure of water...

Bernal�s alarm clock x-ray diffraction camera, c 1940s.

X-ray Image, X-ray Equipment, Alarm Clock

Taken from a collection of photographs, equipment and printed material tracing the history of photography, assembled by Kodak Limited and acquired...

Crew operating a film camera on set, c 1940s.

1940-1949, Film Crew

Sony High Definition television camera. Broadcast television has always had relatively poor definition. With the current trend for much larger...

Sony HDTV camera, 1992.

'For an hour and a half a camera on a tripod was stationed on a London roof top recording the air raid. Searchlights pick up raiders - the line of a...

Bombs and searchlights lighting the night sky, London, 1 September 1940.

Made by GP Thomson of Aberdeen, the son of JJ Thomson who identified the electron. Working in the same field, GP Thomson observed electron...

Electron diffraction camera, c 1927.

Made in Aberdeen by G P Thomson , the son of J J Thomson who identified the electron. Working in the same field, G P Thomson observed diffraction of...

Electron diffraction camera, 1925.

Made in Aberdeen by G P Thomson , the son of J J Thomson who identified the electron. Working in the same field, G P Thomson observed diffraction of...

Electron diffraction camera, 1925.

The seated newlyweds pose for the camera surrounded by family and friends including the Beatles's manager Brian Epstein , Paul McCartney and the...

Beatle George Harrison marrying model Patti Boyd, 21 January 1966.

Pattie Boyd, Eric Clapton, Paul McCartney

This is the type of camera used between 1935 and 1953 for shooting Technicolor motion pictures. It uses three separate films to obtain colour records...

Technicolor camera, c 1940s.

This is the type of camera used between 1935 and 1953 for shooting Technicolor motion pictures. It uses three separate films to obtain colour records...

Technicolor camera, c 1940s.

Trained as a sociologist, Lewis Wickes Hine used photography as a documentary tool to inspire social reform. For instance, his ground-breaking...

American photographer Lewis Wickes Hine in action, New York, c 1910s.

This is the type of camera used between 1935 and 1953 for shooting Technicolor motion pictures. It uses three separate films to obtain colour records...

Technicolor camera, c 1940s.

After the end of World War II, much of the German camera industry, which was centred around Dresden and Jena was in the Soviet zone of occupation,...

Exakta VX1000 35mm single lens reflex camera, c 1967.

Military Invasion

Photograph taken by Lewis Wickes Hine . Trained as a sociologist, Hine used photography as a documentary tool to inspire social reform. For instance,...

Morning Recreation, tenement children, New York, c 1910.

Mitchells were the standard feature film industry camera. In 1966, the manufacturers claimed that '85 per cent of all films shown in theatres...

Mitchell NC 35mm camera, late 1940s.

This is the type of camera used between 1935 and 1953 for shooting Technicolor motion pictures. It uses three separate films to obtain colour records...

Technicolor camera, c 1940s.

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