Movie Camera in Police Car Puts Evidence on Film (Sep, 1939)
Movie Camera in Police Car Puts Evidence on Film
Mounted on the dashboard of his patrol car, with its lens pointing forward through the windshield, a motion-picture camera belonging to Officer R. H. Galbraith of the California Highway Patrol takes photographs of the automobiles he trails along the highways, making a permanent film record of any traffic violations for possible later use in court.
I wonder if in 1939 they knew that this idea would make possible “America’s Dumbest Car Chases”?
September 1939: First video camera installed in a police car.
October 1939: First tape of unethical behavior by an officer is ‘lost’.
Sean, I can’t believe it took a month.
…. to be a real “stickler” It is a film camera, not a video camera. I know people use “filming” now for video cameras but it drives me crazy, film is a chemical process, video is an electronic process.