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Mitchell Camera Corporation was an American motion picture camera manufacturing company established in Los Angeles in 1919. It was a primary supplier of newsreel and movie cameras for decades, until its closure in 1979.

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The Mitchell Camera Corporation was founded in 1919 by Henry Boeger and George Alfred Mitchell as the National Motion Picture Repair Co. Its first camera was designed and patented by John E. Leonard in 1917, and from 1920 on, was known as the Mitchell Standard Studio Camera. Features included a planetary gear-driven variable shutter U.S. patent 1,297,703 and a unique rack-over design U.S. patent 1,297,704. George Mitchell perfected and upgraded Leonard's original design, and went on to produce the most beloved and most universally used motion picture cameras of the Golden Age of Hollywood under the name of The Mitchell Camera Company. The company was first headquartered on Sunset Blvd in Los Angeles, then building a new factory in West Hollywood and moving there in 1930, and finally moving operations to its factory location in Glendale, California in the 1940s. Its final location was in Sun Valley California where it moved in the 1970's.

The Mitchell Camera Movement was utilized for animation in George Lucas Star Wars films.

Mitchell Camera Corporation was privately and quietly purchased in mid 1929 by William Fox of Fox Film Studios, just before the Great Depression began, though George Mitchell continued working with the company until he retired in the 1950s. Although William Fox had lost control and possession of his own Fox Film Studios and theaters empire in March of 1930, he apparently quietly retained possession of the Mitchell Camera Company, as his two daughters still owned the Mitchell Camera Company when it closed in 1979.[1]

Mitchell Camera Supplies were supplied by Mitchell Camera Corporation management through the late 1980's.

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