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BRIGAMATIC Model R-TR automatic high-speed 16mm film processor.
It is used today at just about every major race track.
The system consists of a number of camera stations or towers erected at strategic points around the track. In each station is a 16mm camera manned by an operator. Each camera is fitted with appropriate lens — usually a tele¬ photo. The camera stations are so situ¬ ated that each race is photographed in its entirety in closeup. In other words, a given camera in the system will cover the horses as they travel within the area prescribed for coverage by that camera plus part of the area prescribed for the next camera, so that each camera records overlapping action. In this way, every second of the race is recorded on film.
At the end of any race, if a foul is claimed (or suspected) the film is screened for the track officials. Even before the race is over, a fast camera car is circling the track behind the horses picking up the reels of film just exposed by the camera in the stations. At the clubhouse, the film is fed into the fast, automatic processing machine. The processed film, instead of being spooled on a reel, is fed directly into a projector which screens it for the judges, all in a matter of minutes. In one race track installation, TV equip¬ ment is employed so that films of ques¬ tionable races are shown to track offi¬ cials in the judges’ stand via closedcircuit TV within a minute and 45
HILLS Model 16HT automatic high-speed 16mm film processor.
seconds after the first reel of film is fed into the processing machine.
V hen film patrol of race tracks was first introduced, various types of film processing machines existing at the time were used. However, they were not de¬ signed for the rapid processing which the system required. For one thing most of the machines utilized a 4’00-foot length of leader strip, which preceded the developed film through the processor. This meant that it required between
six and ten minutes for the leader alone to pass through the machine before the developed film began to emerge.
About this time, film manufacturers introduced a new type film having a pre-hardened emulsion, which meant that it could be processed in solutions of higher temperatures than before and thus reduce the overall processing time. Augmenting this important step was the introduction of high-energy developing (Continued on Page 102)
American Cinematographer
February, 1955
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