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CINEMATOGRAPHY IN SERVICE
INSTALLATION OF modified T1A camera wing mount on bomb rack of F-86F aircraft. Mount developed by APCS personnel, encloses Bell & Howell Eyemo camera for photographing airto-ground and ground-to-air combat action.
THE T1A camera wing mount showing position of the Eyemo camera and the L-shaped channel through which the film travels to and from the 400-foot magazine in tandem position.
Fitting The Camera To The Job
Adapting cameras and related equipment to unique photographic assignments is all in the day’s work for cameramen of the APCS.
By HERB A. LIGHTMAN
Qne of the most stimulating challenges to the U.S. Air Photographic and Charting Service, in providing world-wide motion picture and still photographic coverage of Air Force activities, is the almost constant demand for development of special camera equipment and the adaptation of standard equipment to meet its highly individual¬ ized requirements. Sometimes this merely calls for an imaginative way of utilizing existing units with¬ out mechanical modification. In other cases it re¬ quires designing and construction of the original equipment to serve a unique purpose. In most situa¬ tions, however, a “yesterday” deadline adds zest to the whole procedure and calls into play a com¬ bination of “Yankee Ingenuity” and precise engi¬ neering skill.
An account of a typical stop-the-presses assign¬ ment will serve to illustrate how APCS technicians swing immeditaely into action in adapting standard motion picture equipment to a highly specialized
situation. Recently APCS headquarters at Orlando Air Force Base received a request for a camera crew to film a two-week Counter Insurgency semi¬ nar at the Air University at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. Hal Albert, Asst. Deputy Chief of Staff-Photographic at Orlando immediately flew to the location to check out the situation. The as¬ signment called for filming forty-six 45-minute lec¬ tures during the seminar — as many as eight in one day. What made the situation more challenging was the fact filming had to be done without dis¬ tracting the audience’s attention from the continu¬ ity of the program itself.
Albert decided the best way to accomplish this was to utilize four 1200-foot Super-Pro Auricon single-system sound cameras concealed in two draped booths on either side of the auditorium. He estimated that 170,000 feet of 16mm single-perfora¬ tion Tri-X Pan film in 1200 foot rolls would be needed. Locating this amount of such film stock
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AMERICAN CINEMATOGRAPHER, JANUARY, 1963