The Kodak Brownie “Holiday” Flash was a camera that was very popular in its day. It’s brown bakelite combined with silver with red accents just screamed 1950’s. It was made from 1953 thru 1964 and took 127 roll film. If you are unfamiliar with 127 roll film, its still “medium format” film as it is larger than 35mm. The roll width is approximately 46mm wide, which puts it right in-between 120 and 35mm.

127 film was fairly popular in its day, being used by both “point and shoot” cameras as well as the “Baby” Rolleiflex and the Yashica 44.  In square format it yields 12 exposures per roll. In 4x6 format it yields 8 images per roll. 127 can still be found today from various retailers, including B&H and Freestyle.