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A difference of opinion may be what makes horse races interesting: but if the race is going to prove anything, all differences of opinion have got to stop short of the finish line. If you’ve ever put a couple of dollars on a horse’s nose and capped the agony of a close finish with hearing some judge rule in his opinion another nag’s schnozzle crossed the line first, you'll know what I mean. Not only you, but several thousand others, including the horse’s owner, the sportswriters and everyone concerned except perhaps the horse himself. want tangible proof rather than personal opinions about that finish.
In view of this, and the really important money that changes hands in prizes and through the pari-mutual windows after each modern race, it is no wonder that the sportsmen and executives in command of America s most progressive racing plants have called on photography to take the guesswork out of race judging.
Both still cameras and cine cameras have been used for picturing finishes, hut the latest and, according to expert opinion, the most accurate of racefinish cameras is neither a still camera nor a motion picture camera. It per
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forms the apparently paradoxical feat of taking still pictures of moving objects on a continuously moving strip of motion picture film and. less than a minute later, delivering to the judges an enlarged print showing the exact order in which each horse crossed the finish line.
Officially this camera is called the Photo-Chart Camera. It is the brainchild of engineer Lorenzo Del Riccio, well known in motion picture circles for his technical research activities in connection with sound and color at Paramount's East Coast studios. His first Photo-Chart installation was developed more than two years ago, and was first used at Bing Crosby’s Del Mar track. Since then, the design and operation of the equipment has been refined and simplified, while the cameras have timed races on leading tracks from coast to coast. As this is written, Del Riccio and his Photo
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