It's a MOVIE camera, not a video camera. "Video" is the electronic representation of a moving image through the modulation of a waveform. Your camera uses film. Technically it's an 8mm camera, the progenitor of Super 8, distinguished by outsized perfs that diminish the image capture area. Video recording would not effectively exist for another eight years, when Ampex released Quad for broadcast use.
I just checked Amazon to see if we could still get our hands on Double 8 film. Looks like we can't, at least, not on there. Which is good. Cause then we'd have to figure out how to develop it. Then show it. Then we'd be finding ourselves down some weird, hipster, camera rabbit hole. . . . I kinda wanna go down that rabbit hole.
Dude if you're going to go that way the direction to go is 16. 16 is still used by cinematic hipsters. It can be developed for... well, a lot, comparatively, but they're just about giving the filmstock away. This camera plus this film is three minutes of black and white footage. Twenty bucks to develop. Last time I shot Super 35 the film stock, shooting ends, plus developing was a little over a buck a second.
Standard 8mm cameras (pre super8) used a special roll of 16mm stock. You shoot, the camera capturing/exposing down one side of the roll, until the spool is done, , then you flip it over (no shit) and expose the other side of the roll - then when you developed it, they split the roll and splice it. Super8 came along and was way more user friendly - just a frigging cartridge you plopped in. I was getting Super8 developed at Walmart as late as 2001 or so for like... $5/roll, but I think those days are over. That Revere is a really good looking little number. I wouldn't necessarily waste money shooting through it - it's an expensive way to record ~6 minutes of life. EDIT: shit... now you've got me going... I love vintage home cinema stuff. Here's the camera I keep at my desk. It's not actually a nice camera per se, and I've never run anything through it - but I liked the way it looked and it was at a thrift store for nothing. I don't think I'll ever shoot through it - it's simply a little reminder to forget about my day job and go make movies. ALSO - http://camera-wiki.org/wiki/Revere I love this stuff.
it's a pretty standard, japanese knockoff 8mm camera. It's a little special (but not at all unique) because it has a three lens setup. You just swivel the mount to choose which focal length you wanted (tele, wide, standard). Pretty standard on older film cameras (before zoom was a thing). and of course... history repeating itself:
