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The Mitchell Camera Corporation broke new ground in the early 1920s by incorporating other devices in the cameras it manufactured, making it possible to create effects. The Mitchell Standard, for instance, was equipped with an iris placed inside the camera, close to the gate, whose position inside the frame and opening could be set by the operator, in addition to a mechanism which enabled the operator to employ vertical and horizontal masks. Yet another device incorporated into the Standard was a disk with ten masks of different shapes: round, oval, keyhole, etc.