O'Connor C-440-0 Wooden Cinema Tripod 100mm Bowl ARRI Fluid Head AS-IS Parts

O'Connor C-440-0 Wooden Cinema Tripod 100mm Bowl ARRI Fluid Head AS-IS Parts

The O'Connor C-440-0 is a vintage wooden cinema tripod from the 1960s, combining a heavy-duty wooden leg assembly with a 100mm bowl mount and an ARRI-manufactured dovetail fluid head made in West Germany. This unit is being sold strictly AS-IS due to a broken leg — it is offered for parts or restoration only and cannot be used as a functional tripod in its current state. The ARRI fluid head and 100mm bowl assembly appear physically intact.

Specifications & What's Included

• Model: O'Connor C-440-0
• Manufacture origin: USA (tripod legs/spider); West Germany (ARRI fluid head)
• Era: Circa 1960s
• Bowl size: 100mm
• Head type: ARRI fluid head with dovetail camera platform
• Dovetail standard: ARRI dovetail
• Thread standard: 3 1/2-8
• Leg material: Wood with aluminum fittings and spike feet
• Pan and tilt: Fluid-damped pan and tilt with drag/tension controls
• Included: ARRI dovetail fluid head, 100mm bowl assembly, wooden tripod legs with aluminum hardware
• Condition note: One leg is broken — sold AS-IS for parts or restoration

Applications

O'Connor is an American manufacturer with roots in the Hollywood studio system, and the C-440-0 dates from the 1960s golden era of large-format motion picture production. Wooden cinema tripods of this type were standard support equipment on film sets worldwide, valued for their vibration-dampening properties and stability under heavy cameras such as the ARRI 35, Mitchell BNC, and Éclair NPR. The 100mm bowl mount became the professional cinema standard during this period — it allows fast leveling without adjusting individual legs — and the ARRI dovetail platform accommodates the quick-release camera plates that ARRI popularized on their camera systems. This tripod/head combination would have been used in film production, documentary work, broadcast studio settings, and scientific or optical instrument support. Today, units like this are sought by film historians, vintage camera collectors, cinematography schools, and restorers building period-correct camera rigs. Parts from the head and bowl assembly in particular remain useful to shooters working with other O'Connor or ARRI-compatible hardware from the same era.