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Bell and Howell is a U.S.-based services organization and former manufacturer of cameras, lenses and motion picture machinery, founded in 1907 by two projectionists, and was originally headquartered in Wheeling, Illinois. The company is now headquartered in Durham, North Carolina, and currently provides services for automated equipment in enterprise-level companies.

History[edit]

According to its charter, the Bell & Howell Company was incorporated on February 17, 1907. It was duly recorded in the Cook County Record Book eight days later. The first meeting of stockholders took place in the office of Attorney W. G. Strong on February 19 at 10 a.m. The first board of directors was chosen for a term of one year: Donald Joseph Bell (1869–1934), chairman; Albert Summers Howell (1879–1951), secretary; and Marguerite V. Bell (wife of Donald Bell), vice chairman.^[1]

Historically, Bell & Howell Co. was an important supplier of many different media technologies. The firm built its name making such products as:

• A rotary framer on 35mm film projectors in 1907
• A 35mm film perforator in 1908
• Professional 35mm motion-picture film cameras from 1909 on
• Printing equipment used by motion-picture film laboratories since 1911
• The Standard Cinematograph Type 2709 hand-cranked camera (used in early silent films, it was so expensive that only Charlie Chaplin and three other people owned one.^[2] The rest were owned by studios)
• Newsreel and amateur film cameras such as the Filmo (end of 1923) and Eyemo (1925), and Autoload EE (1956)
• Military 16mm film gun camera TYPE N-6A
• Regular-8 and Super-8 film cameras and projectors (all models)
• 16mm silent and sound projectors (all models); the famous Filmosound projectors dominated the market for many years.
• Slide projectors (2' × 2')
• 35 mm filmstrip projectors.
• Overhead presentation projectors (all models)

In 1934, Bell & Howell introduced their first amateur 8mm movie projector, in 1935 the Filmo Straight Eight camera, and in 1936 the Double-Run Filmo 8. The 1938 Kodak cassette holding 25 feet of Double-Eight film was taken by the Filmo Auto-8 in 1940.

The firm added microfilm products in 1946. In 1954, Bell & Howell purchased DeVry Industries' 16mm division.^[3]

Although known for manufacturing their film projectors, a partnership with Canon between 1961 and 1976 offered still cameras. Many of their 35mm SLR cameras were manufactured by Canon with the Bell & Howell logo or Bell & Howell/Canon in place of the Canon branding. The firm dropped the production of movie cameras by the end of the 1970s.

Bell & Howell was a supplier of media equipment for schools and offices. The film laboratory line is now a separate company, BHP Inc, which is a division of Research Technology International.

It purchased University Microfilms International in the 1980s. UMI produced a product called ProQuest. They also had an Electronics and Instrumentation Division on Lennox Road, Basingstoke, UK. This facility produced several different types of transducers for applications such as North Sea oil platforms and the Ariane Space vehicles.^[4]

In the 2000s, Bell & Howell decided to focus on their information technology businesses. The imaging business was sold to Eastman Kodak and the international mail business was sold to Pitney Bowes. On June 6, 2001, Bell & Howell became a ProQuest Company,^[5] which was then a publicly traded company, but is now a subsidiary of the private Cambridge Information Group. In September 2001, the remaining industrial businesses along with the Bell & Howell name were sold to private equity firm Glencoe Capital.

The company merged with the North American arm of Böwe Systec Inc. In 2003, Böwe Systec later acquired the entire company. It was known as Böwe Bell & Howell until 2011, when Versa Capital Management bought the company out of bankruptcy and renamed the company 'Bell and Howell, LLC'.^[6]In December 2018 Versa Capital Management, LLC (“Versa”) announced the successful closing of the sale of Bell and Howell, to Boston-based WestView Capital Partners (“WestView').

Apple II[edit]

Bell & Howell marketed a specially designed Apple II Plus computer to the educational market beginning in July 1979. The modified Apple had additional security elements for classroom use such as a tamper-proof cover. The case color was black but the inside was a standard Apple II Plus.^[7][8] The modified Apple II became known colloquially among computer enthusiasts as the 'Darth Vader' Apple II for its black case design.^{[9][citation needed]}

Education Group[edit]

Bell & Howell founded an Education Group within their company in 1907. This Education Group created Bell & Howell Schools in 1966. In that same year, the Education Group purchased a controlling share of DeVry Institute of Technology. Two years later in 1968, Bell & Howell’s Education Group, via a controlling interest in DeVry, acquired Ohio Institute of Technology in Columbus, Ohio.^[10] Over the years, the Education Group has bought and sold large interests in a variety of educational organizations and institutions.

Gallery[edit]

• Specimen stock certificate

• Bell & Howell 8mm amateur camera Filmo Straight Eight

• Bell & Howell Zoomatic movie camera used to shoot the Zapruder film, in the collection of the U.S. National Archives

• Bell & Howell 8mm home movie camera, model Two Twenty

• Bell & Howell 200 Movie Camera

• Bell & Howell Autoload 309 Super 8 Camera

• Educational version of Apple II computer

• Venditore vincente pdf download. Bell & Howell's former western United States regional headquarters at 623 Circle Seven Drive (formerly 623 Rodier Drive) in Glendale, California

See also[edit]

• TeleMation Inc. In 1977, TeleMation inc. became a division of Bell and Howell.

References[edit]

Notes

1. ^'Donald J. Bell 1869-1934 and Albert S. Howell 1879-1951'. connection.ebscohost.com. Archived from the original on June 12, 2018. Retrieved 2019-11-17.
2. ^James, Grahame. 'For Sale: Charlie Chaplin's Movie Camera'. Retro Thing. Retrieved 2019-11-17.
3. ^'DeVry Movie Projector Production Flickers Out'. Chicago Tribune. Nov 4, 1965. Retrieved 2017-07-17.
4. ^'Senior Process Engineer (advertisement)'. New Scientist. 96 (1326): 64. October 7, 1982. ISSN0262-4079. Retrieved March 16, 2017.
5. ^Paula J. Hane (2001-06-11). 'Bell & Howell Becomes ProQuest Company'. Newsbreaks.infotoday.com. Retrieved 2014-08-16.
6. ^Judge OKs $80M Versa Bid For Bowe Bell & Howell
7. ^'Apple and Bell & Howell Enter Education Market'. Intelligent Machines Journal. InfoWorld Media Group. 1 (11): 77. July 18, 1979. ISSN0199-6649.
8. ^'Apple II Plus - Bell & Howell Model – Introduction'. The Mac Geek. Pearl City Networks. 2010. Retrieved August 1, 2013.
9. ^'6-The Apple II Plus'. Apple2history.org. 2008-12-03. Retrieved 2019-11-17.
10. ^Page six of the Ohio Institute of Technology Student hand book from the school year 1974-1975

Bibliography

• Unlocking the Vault Dated November 13, 2000, viewed December 7, 2006
• BHP Inc Website viewed December 7, 2006

External links[edit]

• European & International Sector. (Wayback Machine copy)
• The Zapruder Camera Bell & Howell 414PD Director Series - Overview and User's Manual. (Wayback Machine copy)

The story of the incomparable Bell and Howell Filmo 16mm movie camera (page 2)The model 70C was the firstFilmo to come factory-equipped with the three lens turret. B&H offered aretrofit kit for earlier models to convert to the turret style for just afew dollars. This unique feature was a first for a 16mm camera and allowedthe Filmo to cover any possible filming situation the photographer mightcome up against. B&H sold all early Filmo's exclusively with English-madeCooke lenses beginning with a 15MM F2.5 and extending all the way up to a6' F5.5. The Cooke 1' F3.5 universal focus anastigmat was normally sold asstandard equipment but any lens in the series could be ordered with the camera.Cooke lenses were renown for their extremely high definition and flatnessof field across the entire frame. The standard 1' threaded 'C' mount wasused on all three ports making the camera compatible with literally hundredsof possible lens combinations.

By 1930, with the introduction of the 70D,all subsequent models, with the exception of the high speed versions, werenow equipped with seven filming speeds. Up until this pointyou were limitedto the two speeds of 8 and 16fps or 16 and 32fps and, with the model 70AB the speeds of12, 16 and 24fps. 16fps was considered normal speed. Anything above thiswould have been 'slow motion'. The idea of using 8fps basically gave youa 100% increase in exposure as long as what you were filming did not involvemovement of people or any fast action.The camera was never equippedwith a reflex or through-the-lens viewfinder. Instead, it used threeversions of a side-finder arrangement. Beginning with the model 70D the Filmowas equipped with what was called in the literature, a 'revolving drum variableangle spyglass' viewfinder (see photo of the 70D, above).

A dial on the sideof the eyepiece allowed the operator to rotate one of six fields of viewinto place depending on the focal length of the lens used. This was alsooffered as a factory conversion for models 70A - 70C, but cameras had tobe sent back to the factory for a custom fitting. The later Filmos featureda 'positive-type separate objective' viewfinder. This looked like a miniatureversion of the three lens turret. Each camera lens of a given focal lengthhad a matching focal length objective that, in later models, rotatedautomatically into place through a gearing arrangement as you selected thelens you were going to shoot with.At the backof the viewfinder was an adjustment for correcting parallax and to compensatefor the operators particular vision needs. A photographer would have to relyon the markings on the lens to set distance quickly or use a technique commonto still photographers where they would set their lens to a given distanceand then move in on the subject until they reached that point. In addition,something which was first offered on the 70DA, Bell & Howell providedwhat they referred to as a 'critical focuser' device.

To use it the operatorwould swing the taking lens around to the winding key side and then peerinto a tiny port at the edge of the turret. Although only a small portionof the image in the center was actually visible this did allow one to actuallylook through the lens and precisely adjust the focus. This could only beused for static set ups where the action would wait for you. For shootingcloseup work or when photographing titles you could purchase a device called a'focusing alignment gauge'. Basically, it was a rack-over attachment thatmounted between the tripod and the camera.

It allowed one to slide the camerafrom the focusing position to the shooting position and still maintain thecorrect image alignment. There was also something called a 'waist levelviewfinder' (see photo) so you could shoot from the hip so to speak.Actually, it was made for taking unusual or low angle shots. It mounted tothe film compartment door just above the existing viewfinder tube. The Frenchlens manufacturer, Angenieux, also released a zoom lens in the early 1960'sthat was equipped with a side-finder. It madethrough-the-lensreflex viewing possible for 16mm cameras like the Filmo and others that werenever so equipped.In 1933, Bell & Howellintroduced several modifications in their model 70DA which they marketedas the semi-professional Filmo. A removable 200' magazine was addedalong with an electric motor option of either 12 or 110 volts.

In addition,a newly designed range finder, fitted to the film compartment door, madeit possible to determine subject distance accurately. B&H added the handcrank option beginning with this model. The crank was fitted to a port justbelow the winding key. The same port used for the electric drive. It allowedthe operator to hand crank the full 100 foot load if necessary to cover theaction.

The speed was regulated by the internal governor as long as the operatorkept up with the cranking. Using the hand crank the camera could also bebackwound for producing lap dissolves and double exposures.Of all the features itwas the wide range of filming speeds available that made the camera a favoriteof professionals and serious amateurs alike. The speed was set by adjustinga governor dial that, although it was marked off with seven of the most commonlyused speeds, had no click stops so the camera was able to run at any speedbetween 8 and 48 frames per second. All the cameras accepted 50 or 100' internalloads with the 70H, the 70F and the final version 70HR factory equipped foran external 400' magazine option.