This tricked-out 1950s-era Paillard Bolex H-8 8 mm movie camera is among a handful of vintage cameras being offered on the first day of Cordier Auctions’ two-day winter catalog auction ...

And the best of those devices were made in Switzerland by a company called Bolex ... cameras at highly competitive prices, and in the USA Eastman Kodak introduced the hugely popular Super 8mm film ...

Alyssa Bolsey, the inventor’s great-granddaughter and a 2007 graduate of the San Diego State University School of Theatre, Television and Film ... the Bolex camera to the Paillard company ...