Cine camera lenses are a fine choice for making really big photographs of really small subjects. The "normal" lens for 16mm cameras is a 25mm. One of these, mounted in reverse, permits magnifications in the 20X range if you have a long enough bellows.
The first all-metal cine camera is the Bell & Howell Standard of 1911-12. One of the most complicated models is the Mitchell-Technicolor Beam Splitting Three-Strip Camera of 1932.
Advertisement for Ensign cine cameras in Asahi Camera June 1932. (Image rights)
There was also a range of Ensign cine cameras.
 See also: Film, Image, Lens, Speed, Finder
  
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