August 11, 2007

Camera Inside a Football Films View from Air (Dec, 1938)

Filed under: Photography, Sports — @ 12:16 am
Source: Popular Mechanics ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Dec, 1938
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Camera Inside a Football Films View from Air
Wonder what the stadium looks like to the football sailing through the air? You’ll soon know. For a novel sequence in a football picture filmed in the Rose Bowl by RKO-Radio Pictures, a sixteen-millimeter movie camera was fitted inside a football made of balsa wood. The lens looked out from a window in the end of the imitation ball. As the player forward-passed the football, a release spring started the camera grinding, and a panoramic view of the field and the players was recorded until the ball came to rest in the receiver’s arms.

5 Comments »

  1. umm, wouldn’t the picture be spiraling?

    Comment by Stannous — August 11, 2007 @ 9:08 am

  2. A slit instead of a shutter would produce a 360 degree panorama.

    Like the rotating camera seen in GhostBusters II while photographing the painting.

    Or…. really fast film

    Comment by jayessell — August 13, 2007 @ 5:41 am

  3. I can only wonder how much that camera weighed

    Comment by nlpnt — August 13, 2007 @ 6:19 pm

  4. what is the operating principle of camera

    Comment by prathees — September 10, 2009 @ 8:39 am

  5. If the film was very sensitive and allowed very short exposures each frame could be
    rotated to be right-side-up using a optical printer/animation stand.

    Or…

    The experiment may have failed and the film was scrapped for being too blurry.

    Comment by jayessell — September 10, 2009 @ 8:56 am

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