Abstract: Film transport for a motion picture camera with a claw 2, of which at least one claw tip 21, 22 advances the film to be transported, provided with perforations on one edge 10, stepwise past a gate, and a transport drive which comprises a working arm 5 connected with the middle segment 20 of claw 2 with articulation, said arm being connected by a claw crank pivot 12 with a crank arm 4 and moving claw 2 in such fashion that claw tips 21, 22 traverse an elongated closed curve which at one end enters the film plane and at the other end leaves it again, with crank arm 4 being coupled by a control arm 6 with a fixed bearing 14 of an oscillation crank 7, said crank being connected end segment 23 of claw 2 with articulation.

Abstract: A film transporting mechanism includes two film transporting claws disposed on opposite sides of a center plane. The claws come into engagement with perforations in two rows of perforations in a film to be transported stepwise past a picture window. Each claw is driven by its own transporting drive. The tips of the claws traverse an elongate, closed curve which at one end enters into the film's traveling plane and at another end leaves the plane. Each of the transporting drives has at least one drive shaft that is mounted in axially spaced bearings mounted in openings in laterally spaced bearing plates. The bearings for the drive shaft, or drive shafts, are disposed on opposite sides of the center plane, in the opening of the bearing plates.

Abstract: A claw feed mechanism for a motion picture camera for intermittently advancing film for exposure. A first end of an elongated, light-weight film feeding pin is pivotally coupled to a first crank. The film feeding pin includes an advancing taper at the second end thereof for engaging with and advancing the film. A second crank includes a guide for guiding the film feeding pin. The first and second cranks are mutually eccentrically driven so that the film feeder pin reciprocates with respect to the guide, while the film feeder pin and the guide synchronously pivot so that the advancing taper on the film feeder pin defines an elliptical path thereby intermittently engaging with and advancing the film for exposure.

Abstract: A device for driving the claw shaft of a motion picture camera, comprises an electric motor coupled to the claw shaft itself connected to said claw by a mechanism of the crank-connecting rod system type, for converting the movement of rotation of the electric motor into a movement of reciprocating translation.Means are provided for modulating the speed of rotation of the claw shaft as a function of the angle of rotation thereof with respect to a reference position, so that the speed of the claw at the moment of its engagement in a perforation of the film is as low as possible and that this speed then increases, during the descent of the film, according to a law such that the acceleration communicated to the film causes only a minimum stress exerted on said latter.

Abstract: A mechanism for advancing film relative to a film aperture is releasably mounted for movement between an active position at the film aperture and a passive position spaced from the film aperture and enabling threading of film relative to the film aperture.

Abstract: Photographic film handling apparatus, such as projectors or cameras, include an aperture located in a plane, and a film advancing mechanism mounted at the film aperture and including a first pin for intermittently advancing the photographic film past the film aperture, and a second pin for registering the film relative to the film aperture between successive intermittent advancements. These pins, and any mounting brackets therefor, are all located outside and to one side of the aperture as seen in a direction extending perpendicularly to the plane of the aperture.