2007-04-01 10:28:44 · 25 answers · asked by masonv80 3 in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
a little camera that was given to kids around post war time.
My dad (born 1941) had one given to him as a child.
2007-04-01 10:38:39 · answer #1 · answered by audrey_o 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I guess a box brownie is a camera (having read all the answers above), but do you know what a "brownie box" is ?
Just to put your mind at rest... it's a yellow plastic box with "Brownies" printed on top. Brownie Guides use it to keep all their books and things in.
:-)
2007-04-03 17:36:36 · answer #2 · answered by k_a_r_e_n_d 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes it was an old camera, it was inside a brown leather box with the lens showing through a hole in the box. You used the camera without taking it out of the box, hence the name 'Box Browine'.
The 'Brownie Camera' is celebrating its 107th birthday this year. See website
2007-04-02 03:47:59 · answer #3 · answered by J. 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A box brownie is a very early photography camera and if one is in good condition they still can be used today and still take good films. Some photography dealers keep them in a show case with other old cameras.
2007-04-05 09:33:35 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Box Brownie was a small box camera, made from jute board and wood, and sold for $1 in the United States.
http://www.thebigcamera.com.au/Brownie.html
2007-04-01 17:37:14 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's an old fashioned biscuit that you can take pictures with. Sort of like an edible digital camera from about 60-70 years ago. The lens was a squashed flat raisin, and you pushed a chocolate button to take the picture. It came in a box!
2007-04-04 16:16:48 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
a brownie in a box
2007-04-01 19:23:35 · answer #7 · answered by charley 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a box brownie is an old fashioned camera called so because it was brown and in a brown box.
2007-04-01 17:37:48 · answer #8 · answered by mary h 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
A camera that came into being around 1940's. It was one of the first cameras that used film instead of plates enabling the general public to take photos, instead of having them professionally taken.
2007-04-01 17:37:31 · answer #9 · answered by ELIZABETH M 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's a camera its like a squarish brown leather box with a lens on the front my grandad had one !
2007-04-04 17:21:45 · answer #10 · answered by Dilili 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is a camera. It was just a box with a pinhole instead of a lens. A cheap camera for strting photography cheaply
2007-04-01 17:34:43 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋