Brian Drysdale

In the UK Cinelab: https://www.cinelab.co.uk/ and R3store: https://r3storestudios.com/ do this type of work.

People operated the Sony ENG cameras for hours. You can still buy 2/3" cameras, but they've gone out of fashion, except for shooting news and multi camera broadcast work on sport, live events and video studio productions.

You need a rig that allows you to have the camera on the shoulder, with a viewfinder at the front and a battery at the back, so that you can balance the weight of the lens. There are companies that make such a rig, e.g. Wooden camera. There are also external viewfinders available from various manufacturers.

It's a separate item that you buy. You'll find it on p49 & 50 here: https://www.aoassocies.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/arri_sr2_usermanual_en.pdf Mark suggests the fast and dirty method, which does work.

Shooting at 25fps would the way to go, just make sure that the bar is out of frame, you can get a phase adjuster for that.

Yes, they usually come with a shoulder bag, but you can easily carry the tripod over your shoulder. The Bolex and lenses is pretty light and easily fits in a small backpack.

The CADIL: http://bolexh16user.net/CriticalGateFocusser.htm Flimsy isn't good for a 16mm film camera, the old friction head made by Paillard for the Bolex wasn't flimsy, although it still wasn't wonderful to work with, even if you could pan and tilt with it. You don't need a full 100mm bowl head, but a 75mm bowl tripod for pro-consumer video camcorders is something to consider, they're easily carried by a single person.

I was referring to the Arri 16 SR 2 cameras (as mentioned in the article), I gather it was used on a number of productions. Panavision bought Joe Dunton rentals. https://britishcinematographer.co.uk/panavision/ It was more of a hard enclosure, than soft like a barney.

In the UK, one rental company (Joe Dunton's) made a blimp for the SR1 & 2 for shooting dramas. From memory, it just covered the camera and not the lens.

You can shoot at 50 ISO, it's night exteriors that would be an issue, but night interiors should be fine. I used to shoot commericals on 16mm with 50D stock, the lights are hotter, but the main issue in the US may be the power, since in the UK you can take approx 3k out of a mains socket. So, you may have to do a mains tie in for the power. If you shoot at T2, it would be at the old 100 foot candles traditionally used on films shooting at 100 ASA at T2.8. I've also shot with 40 ASA Kodachrome on 8mm with limited lighting facilities, so all things are possible.

It's the 1980 edition, there's no further information, there is only those 2 pages.

Here is the Mitchell 35 MK III in the American Cinematographer Manual, it shows the threading of the co-axial mag and in the camera itself.

Here's an old price list: https://www.pacificrimcamera.com/rl/00991/00991.pdf

They probably either shot their own backgrounds, or they were in the studio library/archives.

Bait was shot on a clockwork Bolex: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bait_(2019_film)