B Daylight (1891)

The first generation of Kodaks were darkroom loaded cameras. The spools of film had no protection against the light. When on a day out or on a vacation, the photographer had to look for a darkroom when he needed to put a new film in the camera. When Eastman introduced the Daylight Kodaks in December 1891, he tried to improve on this. The films for the Daylight cameras were contained in a box, with a black paper or cloth trailer at the beginning and end of the band of film. Both boxes, feed and take up, were put in the back of the camera. In the video you can see the compartments.
There are three sizes of Daylight Kodaks: A, B and C. The camera in this video is a size B, taking pictures of 2.75x3.25 inch (7x8 cm). The Daylight Kodaks belong to the so called stringset Kodaks, meaning that the shutter had to be cocked by pulling at a string on top of the box. In the video you can see it on a side, next to the carrying strap and close to the front.
Daylight Kodaks were intended for snapshooters, being easy to use cameras with almost no settings. The B Daylight cost $ 15, which was less than half of the contemporary No. 2 Kodak. 2350 B Daylights were made until it was discontinued in 1895.