Statue Of Liberty

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This was taken at a usa military base.
It was used in a campaign to sell War Bonds. 18,000 men were needed. I have no idea how long it took to make an outline. I have no idea how long it took to get 18,000 guys staged correctly for that shot, how many frames were taken, or anything else like that. It sure would be interesting to know.
Seems like it would have been a Massive Undertaking

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Must hold a world record , lot of solders. They did not have walkie talkie's back then, maybe signal flags to correct aliment problems.
 

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I'm skeptical of the 18,000 number... Maybe 1800. I started at the base, counted the number of men at the widest point, then started counting rows. I got 17 men across at the widest point, then made it to her ribcage at 40 rows. That's 680 people. Still cool. And look at the size of the buildings - 18,000 people would have put the buildings in the background much farther away.
 

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That would be a hard to count up towards the head and flame, and what if they corrected for convergence from bottom to top by adding more men to the top, considering the angle of view of the photo. Looks like it could have been taken from a aircraft or blimp.
 

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Oh, it is very hard to count. I'm just skeptical of the 18,000 number. 8,000 maybe. I don't know.
 

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Thanks Theo each image has some info..
Ffor the Statue of Liberty:
"Arthur's great nephew Joseph Mole, 70, says: "In the picture of the Statue of Liberty there are 18,000 men: 12,000 of them in the torch alone, but just 17 at the base. The men at the top of the picture are actually half a mile away from the men at the bottom"
The third one states:
"Mole and Thomas' work was the first to use a unique technique to beat the problem of perspective after they devised a clever way of getting so many soldiers in the pictures. Arthur's great nephew Joseph explains: "Arthur was able to get the image by actually drawing an outline on the lens, he then had the troops place flags in certain positions while he looked through the camera..."
Very creative...well done, ... not gonna try it...
 
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Wow...drew an outline on the lens.
Now they would look at a laptop computer.
Where there's a will, there's a way.
 

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I bet he drew on the ground glass, the author of the story does not know much about Large Format camera,s
 

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Don't think they drew on the lens but the ground glass. Also was thinking about the depth of focus, using the front tilt or the back. with tilting the back, the foreground would be magnified, something that would increase perspective . Using the front tilt would seem a better choice. What about tilt of both front and back?
 
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