Encore: Hollywood Camera

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Encore: Hollywood Camera

Postby bill339 » Fri Oct 12, 2018 3:50 pm

The Encore Camera Company introduced the Hollywood cardboard camera in the 1950s. It is a disposable camera with a press type viewfinder with a metal tongue that has a ¼” hole in it for your eye and a metal wire frame for the front of the camera. You press both parts of the viewfinder into the box camera when not in use. After taking all 12 pictures, you insert $1.25 in a slot provided at the bottom of the camera and then wright in your return address where indicated, also on the bottom of the camera. The instructions prompt you to use a coin or blunt instrument along the dotted line to get the opening started. You are then instructed to drop the whole camera into the mailbox after you place a (the 1950s) 9 cent stamp on it. The box is addressed to Encore Camera CO., P.O. Box 222, Delano, California. Printed on the side is “Credit coupons for unprintable exposures are issued pro-rata and in the event of error or loss we are responsible only for the money enclosed”. Although they are disposable and made of Cardboard, they do not command a rarity badge at this time.

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