Kodak Bullet

Kodak Bullet image by Rick Soloway (Image rights)

Kodak Bullet, closed image by jgs4309976 (Image rights)

This small 127 (4 × 6 1/2 cm) of 1936 is characteristic of the Kodak design service of the time (Art Deco). It forms part of an Art Deco design family together with the Kodak Baby Brownie and unquestionable Kodak Bantam (all designed by Walter Dorwin Teague). The design of the Bakelite Kodak Bullet is very simple. Its Meniscus lens is assembled on a helicoid slope, at the end of which a shutter release is located. To change the film, the entire back is removed. Two versions exist: one with a sliding catch on one side and a corresponding (but not functional) catch-bar on the other; the second version omits this decorative bar.

The Bullet name was reused later, as the Brownie Bullet.

Links

• Bullet design patent by Walter Dorwin Teague
• Bullet at Sylvain Halgand's collection d'appareils
• Wikipedia: Art Déco
• Wikipedia: Walter Dorwin Teague

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