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Hand held news gathering in London, 1940...!


Gregg MacPherson

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Three interesting old motion picture cameras in this tableau snipped from Churchill at War (52:33). Simon will know them all well. The lighter one on the right held in front of one's face, the others jammed into one's chest below the clavicle bone.  Just a little higher, with a redesigned viewfinder, and one could sit it on one's shoulder. I'm sure that one or two design engineers in 1940 would have doodled a new camera with reconfigured eyepiece and mass distribution. The 35BL or Aaton 35, in their simplest sense, do not seem a huge step, but they took a while to happen. But I guess 16mm happened first.

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Farthest left is a Le Blay, very awkward. Next, in the hands of the smoker, a Graflex. I think to see Horseman press cameras. Then we have a Newman & Sinclair Auto and to the right an Eyemo 71-C.

See Jean-Pierre Beauviala demonstrate the use of the Cinex of Bourdereau:

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From Renoir’s La bête humaine, 1938:

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