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Filmo 70-DB


Michael Cleveland

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6 hours ago, Michael Cleveland said:

There may have been other uses, but it was made specifically for analyzing golf swings, so probably had a limited market.  

 

Hey I had a limited market golf swing camera once upon a time!  8 exposures on a single Polaroid sheet.

https://www.photrio.com/forum/threads/fs-mitchell-graph-check-sequence-camera-8-exposure-sequence-on-one-4x5-picture.90242/

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4 hours ago, Michael Cleveland said:

There have been others made for that purpose, but this is specifically a movie camera.  

Oh I know, this is after all Cinematography.com, I'm just fascinated by how fixated people were on capturing golf swings, apparently.

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2 hours ago, Duncan Brown said:

 I'm just fascinated by how fixated people were on capturing golf swings, apparently.

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You have to remember the time and circumstances.  Filmos were expensive equipment, selling to people who were far more apt than most of us to take off on a world cruise and golf was as much a social phenomenon among the wealthy as it was a sport, so there was much 16mm film footage devoted to golf pros and how-to instructions.  I have no interest in golf swings.  Ideally I would like to locate one to purchase to complete a collection of early Filmos, but I would be happy enough just to find an example to have a look at it.  Outside of the inaccessible Morgana Color Filmo, it is the only  model from about the first decade that I don't have in the collection.  

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I'm sure you've seen this, though it doesn't exactly help your quest to see one of these cameras clearly:

https://archive.lib.msu.edu/tic/golfd/article/1931aug76.pdf

Oh but wait!  This is a little better:

https://archive.lib.msu.edu/tic/golfd/article/1932apr75.pdf

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