I use a forgotten method with my vintage era movie camera!

In this video, we dive a little deeper into the forgotten craft of "the rack-over" method used in Old Hollywood for more than half a century, as I demonstrate what it was like to shoot this way using my own vintage movie camera! If this sounds familiar, yes I did very quickly hit on this topic in a previous video, but I felt like I didn't do it justice. Besides, I didn't have a good way of reproducing the technique - UNTIL NOW - as I acquire an original accessory for my camera called "the Focusing Alignment Gauge".

Heartfelt thanks to my daughters for helping me and for causing me to over-react with joy to the footage we shot over the Holidays. GOODBYE 2020!


Shout out to Origin8Video and their video for Art Adams "The Canyon", where I pulled the on-set demonstration of the Bell & Howell 2709 racking over, as well as a HUGE shout-out to Sam Dodge and his fantastic insight on historic cameras. AMAZING stuff and thank you for making this available to the filmmaking community!


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With Art Adams "The Canyon" - Bell & Howell 2709 Behind the scenes
   • With Art Adams on "The Canyon"  

Sam Dodge's channel with TONS of historic camera content!
   / 1samdodge  

Vintage Filmmaker Newsletter
https://www.thevintagefilmmaker.com/s...

Milo's debut film | "Milo & Jimmy - Picnic Pals"
   • "MILO & JIMMY | Picnic Pals" - A 2020...  


Vintage Filmmaker Website
https://www.thevintagefilmmaker.com

Instagram
  / andy_thevintagefilmmaker  

Facebook Page (does anyone really follow these???)
  / thevintagefilmmaker  





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