Movies for TV - Early Television Foundation

MOVIE-MAKING EQUIPMENT 59
Fig. 3-8. The Kodak Cine Special 16 mm camera spring driven
with 200-foot magazine and two-lens turret. This is probably
the most popular semi-professional camera.
It should be noted that the lens turret carries two lenses set at
an angle to each other so that neither will interfere with the field
of the other. As it stands, it is too noisy
for simultaneous sound
recording, but special blimps for silencing
Messrs. Berndt-Bach, the makers of the Auricon camera, supply
blimps, as well as an electric motor drive (synchronous) so
it can be obtained.
that the Cine Special can be used for synchronized sound recordings
at twenty-four frames per second. The built-in spring motor
will expose approximately thirty-eight feet of film at maximum
winding; this is just about one minute at twenty-four frames per
second.
The panel immediately to the left of the shorter lens in the
illustration contains the special controls and effects. Winding the
handle or crank.
spring motor is performed by rotating the large
The smaller, lower crank is for making either single-frame ex-
posures by placing it on the single-frame shaft at the bottom edge