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From: BOB SHELL <76750.2717@CompuServe.COM>
Date: 15 Apr 97 11:29:25 EDT
Fwd Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 11:50:52 -0400
Subject: Re: 'Expert' comment'

>Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 18:08:28 +0000
>From: Don Ledger <dledger@istar.ca>
>To: updates@globalserve.net
>Subject: Re: UFO UpDate: Re: 'Expert' comment


> A little windup
>Agfa camera or what have you in something this important. Come on!!

Excuse me, Don, but that is a grossly ill-informed and silly comment.
The film has always been claimed to have been shot with a Bell & Howell
Filmo 70 camera.  This camera is certainly not "little".  It is
a large, solid camera, and was used by all branches of the US
military for many years.  In the late 60s, when I began doing
cinematography, many hundreds if not thousands of these cameras
were still in use.  The Bell & Howell Filmo was, in fact, the most
successful motion picture camera in history.

Yes, it was spring driven, as were nearly all cameras at the time.
In today's world of miniaturized motors and such, we tend to forget
that spring wound cameras were the standard in the 20s,30s, 40s, 50s and well
into the 60s.  There was an electric motor attachment for the
Filmo series, but it was gigantic and VERY heavy.  It could not be
used for hand-held shooting.

Bob