Bell & Howell was started by Donald J. Bell, a projectionist, and Albert S. Howell, who worked for a maker of film projectors — two craftsmen who patented a cine projector design in 1907 and went on to build one of the most storied names in American filmmaking. The Bell & Howell name was significant not only in the development of professional motion picture equipment, but in bringing cinema into the American home. Their cameras captured backyard birthdays, cross-country road trips, and decades of ordinary life made extraordinary by the act of preservation. 

This Bell & Howell 333 — with its distinctive triple-lens turret, olive-bronze body, and satisfying array of dials and levers — never made it back to the attic. Instead, it found its way to the workshop of Rick Held of Two Loose Tools in Southern California, who transformed it into something you'd be proud to put on any desk. Mounted on a polished chrome stem above a black USB base, crowned with a black shade trimmed in gold, it's the rare thing that's both a lamp and a conversation.

Details Repurposed Bell & Howell 333 8mm movie camera · Triple-lens turret · Black shade with gold trim · Dual USB ports in base (5V/2A, functions when lamp is on) · Warm white LED filament bulb included · 18.25"h × 6.5"w × 6.5"d · For use in U.S. and Canada only (110–120V) · Handcrafted by Rick Held, Two Loose Tools, Southern California