First Kodak camera and Spice Girls Polaroid camera unveiled at National Science and Media Museum

Here - in the latest of our regular 'Object of the Week' feature, showcasing items from museum collections in the district - we share some intriguing items from the museum’s collection - from Gordon the Gopher to the camera that shot the world’s first film...

Ever wanted to make like a spy and look like you’re checking the time when you’re actually taking a photo?

This 1910 Ticka camera is disguised as an old style pocket watch

If you were a Spice Girls fan back in the Nineties, you may have this limited edition Spice Cam Polaroid instant camera. Girl Power!

Step back to 1989 when you may have lost days, weeks, even months to Tetris or Super Mario Land on this Nintendo Game Boy

This 1862 Thompson Revolver Camera was designed to look like a gun.

Well that’s one way of getting your subject to sit still...

Before Philip Schofield was the king of daytime telly, he shared a broom cupboard with this chap.

Gordon the Gopher was Schofe’s sidekick on children’s BBC, 1983-87

The very first Kodak camera, from 1888, was one of the first affordable cameras.

As Kodak said, ‘You press the button, we do the rest’

This is pretty much all that’s left of the first fiction film made in the UK in 1895.

It was called Incident at Clovelly Cottage. But what was the incident...?

This folding quarter-plate Cameo was given to the girls behind the Cottingley Fairies hoax in 1920 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Curator Geoff Belknap holds the camera, now in the museum’s collection

The world’s first film was shot in Leeds in 1888 by Louis Le Prince.

Using this very camera, he shot traffic going across Leeds Bridge from an ironmongers