Behind the Lens: A Camera Goes to College (1940)

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movie theater audience watching love scene on screen HA man walking by mowing lawn / PAN down to freshly cut grass time-lapse photography of dandelions growing time-lapse camera set up taking pictures at long intervals / flash of light for each picture time-lapse photography of two roses blossoming at different rates / comparative study PAN 2 men behind camera filming woman doing cartwheels + somersaults outside on grass PAN woman doing a backward somersault outside on grass / high-speed photography woman shooting arrow at target + hitting bull's-eye / high-speed photography 2 sets of hands holding cat upside down + dropping it / cat landing on its feet / high-speed photography HA PAN cameraman in helmet lying on platform attached to bumber of 1930s Chevrolet / second man stepping into car + driving off / man filming car's shocks for motion study high-speed photography of front tire + shock absorber of car driving on bumpy road car tire driving over rocks on bumpy dirt road / absorbing shock TS side view 1940 Chevrolet driving over wood blocks / motion study showing car's shock absorbtion ANIMATION / diagram showing how Schlieren photography works / camera filming a lit match disembodied hand lighting match stick / rippling heat waves bursting out from match shown in schlieren photogrpahy disembodied hands shaking / heat waves emanating out from hands shown through schlieren photography / AUDIO disembodied hands in limp hand shake

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8 minutes

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