The film finds its tongue (1929)

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Record Details:

Title:
The film finds its tongue
Date:
1929
Publisher:
New York : G. P. Putnam’s Sons
Volume:
The film finds its tongue
Leaf #:
000211
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion Pictures, Motion Picture Technology
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
August 01, 2024
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SCIENCE AND SHOWMAN 167 tired swivel wheels, with a door cut in the back for the ingress and egress of the cameraman and his machine. There was a square hole in the front of it for the camera to ''shoot" through. And in order that no camera noise could come through this hole, felt sound-insulating material was fastened, in the shape of an invested pyramid between its edges and the outer part of the lens; the lens stuck its glassy eye out from the depths of a felt-sided funnel. When the camera was cooped up in this booth its noise was quite adequately stifled. But its flexibility was still not as great as desired, though much greater than when it had been rigidly confined with the recording apparatus. In the evolution of the motion picture the movie camera had come to be used with the utmost freedom of operation. Never was a camera simply planted in front of the action and shot straight ahead. Each scene was given photographic treatment that seemed best adapted to it. The attempt has always been to get away from the stiff rigidity of mechanical photography. Height of camera, " swing" to follow action, "angle shots," trick shots, shots which started as