This is the Olikos movie camera, designed to record images on glass plates instead of flexible film. The mechanism works by means of a side crank, which drags the plates step by step in front of the lens, achieving the impression of micro-sequences of 84 frames on each plate. The Olikos was an innovative attempt to democratize amateur cinema in Europe around 1905–1915. Instead of using expensive and dangerous nitrate film, it used glass plates with photographic sequences. These could then be pro