the first hand held, sync-sound camera was invented in 1960.
the first hand held, sync-sound camera was invented in 1960.
when was the first hand held, sync-sound camera invented?
1960
in 1959, pennebaker joined the equipment-sharing filmakers' [sic] co-op and co-founded drew associates with richard leacock and former "life" magazine editor and correspondent robert drew. a crucial moment in the development of direct cinema, the collective produced documentary films for clients like abc news (for their television series, "close-up") and time-life broadcast (for their syndicated television series, "living camera"). their first major film, "primary" (1960), documented john f. kennedy and hubert humphrey's respective campaigns in the 1960 wisconsin democratic primary election. drew, leacock and pennebaker, as well as photographers albert maysles, terrence mccartney filgate and bill knoll, all filmed the campaigning from dawn to midnight over the course of five days. widely considered to be the first candid and comprehensive look at the day-by-day events of a presidential race, it was the first film in which the sync sound camera could move freely with characters throughout a breaking story, a major technical achievement that laid the groundwork for modern-day documentary filmmaking. it would later be selected as an historic american film for inclusion in the library of congress' national film registry in 1990.
d. a. pennebaker
arricam is a 35 mm movie camera line manufactured by arri. it is arri's flagship sync-sound camera line, replacing the arriflex 535 line. the design was developed by fritz gabriel bauer and walter trauninger, and is heavily derivative of the cameras bauer created for his moviecam company, which was bought out by arri in the mid-1990s. as such, the arricam is a fusion of the mechanical and intuitive design innovations of the moviecam and the interchangeable accessories and complex electronic integration of the arriflex. , the arricam is considered, along with the panaflex millennium line, the top sync-sound camera system currently in usage, and is extremely popular amongst bigger budget feature films.
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