Leather carrying case for a Magazine Cine-Kodak Eight Model 90 8mm movie camera: Captain Roderick Frank Arthur Strang, Australian Army Medical Corps

Leather carrying case used by Captain Strang to carry his Eastman Kodak 'Eight' model 90 magazine movie camera. The case is of blocked leather with all seams sewn with heavy duty linen thread. The lid has a brass latch with 'EKC' (Eastman Kodak Company) logo embossed on the circular catch and is marked 'MADE IN U.S.A'. The phrase 'KODAK CASE / MADE IN AUSTRALIA' is impressed in the body just above the catch.

An adjustable leather shoulder strap slots through the base of the case and is supplied with two nickle-plated steel buckles. Each buckle has lengths of string attached to it; one has a blue and white BOAC identification tag (cabin) attached which identifies Dr RFA STRANG as the owner and his destination as BOSTON. The label includes another line for Service Number. It is suspected that this label is wartime.
The initials ''R.F.A.S.' are impressed on the front; a later, punch impressed service number, VX39251 appears on the top of the lid. A green United States Customs Service sticker (displaying the term 'INSPECTED BAGGAGE' and carrying a cancelled ink stamp across it) is gummed to the rear of the case.

The interior is lined with blue velveteen and includes a narrow division (also bound in blue velveteen) for the user's manual.

Camera owned and operated by Captain Roderick Frank Arthur Strang, Australian Army Medical Corps. Strang, born in Croyden, NSW on 27 April 1915, was living in Victoria when he enlisted on 7 January 1941, and served in Egypt, Lebanon and the Western Desert before being transferred to New Guinea, where he served at Buna, Gona and Sanananda with 2/11 Australian General Hospital.

Writing to the Australian War Memorial in 1987 when he offered this donation, he noted: 'I enclose the camera and films. The short film shows the Wirraway patrolling the beach after we had taken Gona and the two officers on the beach are Major Sublet and Captain Christian. Sublet said 'put the glass on the plane' which was coming around Sanananda Point, as it did not look like a Beaufighter. As we watched, the Wirraway climbed and shot the Zero down. The film shows a Zero hitting the water...Later Major Herman swam out to the wreckage and the pilot had been shot in the head.'

Captain Strang had earlier shot footage of the AIF ski School in Lebanon in 1941. The footage is a mixture of black and white and colour.