Old Cameras in Old Movies

AgX · Mar 14, 2017

They used several racing cars in different degrees of modification to carry the cine camera(s) with and without operator during racing scenes.

cooltouch · Mar 14, 2017

I pretty sure the recent (2015) movie, Steve McQueen, the Man and LeMans discussed this. I don't recall the details, though.

quixotic · Mar 14, 2017

cooltouch said:
I pretty sure the recent (2015) movie, Steve McQueen, the Man and LeMans discussed this. I don't recall the details, though.

There was a good article about it in the september 2012 issue of Octane (photo attached).

AgX · Mar 15, 2017

In the photo above you can see a guy with seemingly a fire-extinguisher behind the camera car.
The official fire service seems to be there too.

In the camera car there is a kind of cradle for the operator to move in.

A man who in the early 70s both photographed at and raced on the Les Mans course published a book on the making of the movie.

Kino · Mar 15, 2017

The camera is a Mitchell Mark II 35mm with probably a 25 to 250mm Angenieux zoom (or similar).

The "cradle" might be a modified Tyler Helicopter mount with gyro stabilization mount...

Diapositivo · Mar 15, 2017

GRHazelton said:
IIRC the Nikon F also was prominently used, with a film which would yield massive enlargements from hand-held rather casual shots... Please, bring that film back!!

Going by memory, he had a Pentax Spotmatic or so when he went in the park and begun phoographing the couple. But I might recollect badly.
When he takes picture of the model in studio, with the 35mm on hand, IIRC the image is inverted, he advances the film with the "wrong" hand.

AgX · Mar 15, 2017

Kino said:
The "cradle" might be a modified Tyler Helicopter mount with gyro stabilization mount...

With "cradle" I referred to the padded compartment the operator is located in.

Kino · Mar 15, 2017

AgX said:
With "cradle" I referred to the padded compartment the operator is located in.

Yes, I wasn't being sarcastic; Tyler mounts were often attached to a seat or chair.

Paul Howell · Mar 16, 2017

Kojak the Night Stalker with a 16mm still, never seen a close up so don't know the brand with a small vivtiar flash. In just about every episode he is shown in a wire service darkroom developing prints, 8X10 look pretty good from a 16mm negative.

oreston · Mar 17, 2017

Diapositivo said:
Going by memory, he had a Pentax Spotmatic or so when he went in the park and begun phoographing the couple. But I might recollect badly.
When he takes picture of the model in studio, with the 35mm on hand, IIRC the image is inverted, he advances the film with the "wrong" hand.

It's definitely a Nikon F. He uses two or three of them during the course of the film, all with plain finders, and he seems to go by the Sunny 16 rule outdoors.

Antonioni hired no lesser figure than Don McCullin (Sir Don McCullin as of this week - there could hardly be anyone more deserving of a knighthood, even if he had to wait 'til he was 81) to take the actual pictures shot by David Hemmings' character.

Helios 1984 · Jul 10, 2017

Not a movie but still deserve to be here... West Philadelphia born and raised

Kodak Pony 135 ?

removed account4 · Jul 10, 2017

Helios 1984 said:
Not a movie but still deserve to be here... West Philadelphia born and raised

Kodak Pony 135 ?

helios you rock !

smell ya later ..

mrosenlof · Jul 11, 2017

I watched "20th Century Women" a couple of days ago. 2017 movie set in 1978 Santa Barbara. One of the characters played by Greta Gerwig uses a Nikon F2, a Rolleiflex TLR, and a Polaroid SX-70.

Sewin · Jul 11, 2017

Audrey and Fred in Funny Face

And one from Harry Potter

AgX · Jul 11, 2017

The darkroom of a newsreel cameraman:

"Auf Wiedersehen, Franziska", West-Geermany . 1957
@18:50min

Fixcinater · Jul 12, 2017

A Rolleiflex is featured extensively in a newer film, Bokeh. I think it's an MX-EVS with a Xenar. Lots of wear on the film crank surround.

Fixcinater · Jul 24, 2017

There is a pre-Spotmatic Pentax SLR hanging in the conjoined room in "Silver Streak," a silver one that looks brand new.

Helios 1984 · Aug 1, 2017

Here's the venerable Yashica-Mat in "The Ipcress File" (1965).

Note: An excellent espionage flick with Michael Caine.

AgX · Aug 2, 2017

Yes, that camera shows up in a crucial scene at the start decicive to keep watching...

Theo Sulphate · Aug 2, 2017

Heh. How many people under the age of 30 would recognize that as a camera?

Bud Hamblen · Aug 2, 2017

r.reeder said:
How about "The Philadelphia Story" (1940?) with Jimmy Stewart, Kate Hepburn, & Cary Grant. An early Argus C2 or C3 is the scene stealer for me.

Ruth Hussey, playing Elizabth Imbrie, carried the Argus. The Foley artist obviously did not use the characteristic clang of the Argus shutter in this movie. The Argus produced a sedate little "click" instead.

Helios 1984 · Aug 2, 2017

Theo Sulphate said:
Heh. How many people under the age of 30 would recognize that as a camera?

I showed the picture to a friend who's under 30 and asked him to take a guess, he said "I think it's an old camera" than I showed him a picture of my Gossen Luna Pro F and he said "EV? Electron volt? There's numbers and a timer...something to mesure light or radiations perhaps?" hahahah

cooltouch · Aug 3, 2017

Okay, I could see "electron volt" as being a reasonable guess. And he was pretty close with his comment on the meter measuring light or radiation, you gotta admit. So, all is not lost!

AgX · Sep 17, 2017

East-German state camera store as movie setting

This east-german crime movie, based on a true story, is about the struggle of east-german criminal investigators to roll-up a western gang buying cameras in the East and smuggling them to the West.
Some rare camera stuff...

"Ware für Katalonien" (Goods for Catalonia) 1958
(Russian dubbed version)

First appearance of that setting at 10:33min.
Can someone shed light on that bowl-like thing up in the cabinet next to all the flashes at 22:10min ??

AgX · Sep 18, 2017

To add to my question above:
What are the things in that shop window down below? I see a kind of rack with a white screen, a column on box (I guess a lightbox with reprostand) and a collumn with something square attached to it.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/27556454@N07/3221268113/sizes/o/

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