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From: davew@shark.UUCP (Dave Williams)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: enquiry about GONE WITH THE WIND
Message-ID: <1353@shark.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 25-Apr-85 11:38:02 EST
Article-I.D.: shark.1353
Posted: Thu Apr 25 11:38:02 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 27-Apr-85 04:41:42 EST
References: <556@cornell.UUCP> <19000003@hpfcmp.UUCP>
Reply-To: davew@shark.UUCP (Dave Williams)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Engineering Computing Systems
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Summary: 

In article <19000003@hpfcmp.UUCP> rjn@hpfcmp.UUCP (rjn) writes:
>re: Gone with the Wind photography
>
>GWTW was filmed in three-strip  Technicolor.  The camera (now on display at
>the Smithsonian) is basically three B&W cameras with beamsplitter and color
>filters, all in a VERY large box.

The cameras were built by Mitchell Camera Co. for Technicolor. These
cameras were referred to as Rolls-Royces by the industry because of
their cost and size. They had to add a heavy sound deadening box, called
a blimp, over the mechanism to quiet the noise to keep it from being picked
up by the microphones on the set.
When sound pictures were first made the entire camera and
operator were put in a telephone booth like enclosure with a double
glass port for the lens to keep the camera noise down.

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                                    Dave Williams
                                    Tektronix, Inc.
                                    Engineering Computing Systems

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