What kind of camera is this?

[FedoraFan112390]

In the hands of the man on the bottom right, it looks like a movie camera, but I could be wrong and it could just be a photo camera. The picture dates from 1941 or 1942.

 

[Doctor Strange]

It's hard to tell, but I think it's a movie camera, likely a Bell & Howell Eyemo. These standard 35mm movie cameras were widely used for documentary purposes during the war. (Or it could be the smaller 16mm version, the Filmo.)

Besides appearing to be a rotating three-lens turret (which you'd only find on a movie camera), the width of the lenses themselves is narrow enough to indicate that they produce a smaller focal-point image than the larger ones that were standard for a twin-lens reflex using rollfilm (120, 127, 116, 828, etc.), or the smaller standard 24x36mm 35mm still-camera negative.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyemo