Camera Inside a Football Films View from Air (Dec, 1938)
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.
umm, wouldn’t the picture be spiraling?
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
I can only wonder how much that camera weighed
what is the operating principle of camera
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.
Why not use a wireless security camera installed into both ends of the ball?
Not in 1938.