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Old 02-11-2017, 12:09 AM
Chip Chester Chip Chester is offline
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Camera head is a Mitchell head -- didn't remember at the time.
Really separates the men from the boys in camera orientation.
It's like patting your head and rubbing your belly simultaneously.
Or cutting a circle or diagonal line with a manual milling machine.
https://goo.gl/images/edY912

One handwheel pans the camera left to right. The other tilts the lens up or down.
The gearsets are worm gears, with ratios chosen so they are quick and responsive, but will stay put with minimal attention.
Here's a good read: http://filmcastentertainment.blogspo...red-heads.html

Additional camera pics:
https://goo.gl/images/hdKd3c
And many others at the George Eastman museum site:
https://eastman.org/technicolor/tech...e-strip-camera

The general huge-osity is because it may be a Technicolor (3-strip) camera inside.
Quite the mechanical marvel, but pretty darn loud in operation.

In film, the big noisemakers are blimped, or enclosed, when shooting sound. Cameras and electrical generators are both referred to as blimped when they're well-enclosed.


Chip

Last edited by Chip Chester; 02-11-2017 at 12:17 AM.
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