Dashcam

From the collection of

The Box
Established in 1992, the South West Film & Television Archive collection spans from 1893 to the present day containing more than 250,000 items. Formed from a variety of depositors, including broadcast news and programmes material from the Westward and TSW archive. In 2018 the archive collection transferred to The Box in Plymouth.

Dashcam


Police officers have adopted new technology by placing a brownie camera on the dashboard of a Triumph Herald police car. This is not quite capturing that Kodak moment but it illustrates a rise in the use of technology and in one click hopes to reduce traffic offences. Introduced in 1900 the first Kodak Brownie was a jute-board box and by the sixties it was owned by many. The Brownie series continued into the 1980s and remains the hardware icon of the popular happy snappy.


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