[78-L] Was it staged? - 1906 film of a cable car ride
David Breneman
david_breneman at yahoo.com
Fri Mar 25 06:10:17 PDT 2011
--- On Thu, 3/24/11, Andrew Homzy <homzy at vax2.concordia.ca> wrote:
> My biggest question, because you weren't clear on the
> point, is - If there is no editing, how were they able to
> load almost 10 minutes of film into one camera in 1906 - a
> special system devised for that shot?
Seven minutes at 16 fps is a little more than 400' of
film. That's not an awful lot (equivalent of 170' of
16mm). And some cameras did have external magazines
by the mid-1900s.
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