Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/04/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Oh I shall take exception to this - no motors died - all Panaflex's functioned - speaking as the then Panavision Rep for San Francisco. One must also remember that there was a rumor concerning prodigious amounts of blow being done..........just a rumor now don't get into a tizzy. Jay Ignaszewski -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+bonvini=optonline.net@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+bonvini=optonline.net@leica-users.org]On Behalf Of Anders Nygren Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 4:22 PM To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] OT: 35mm film cameras On 4/26/05, grduprey@aol.com <grduprey@aol.com> wrote: > The reason I brought this up is, At the end of the film Last Waltz by Martin Scorsese, during the Jam session, the film abruptly stops and there is a written notice that 35 mm cameras are not built to run for the periods they were used to film the jam session which was around 6 hrs. I'm sure they had to stop and change film and so they were off during the film changes. Anybody have any insight to this? > Well, I dont claim to have any firsthand knowledge on this, but in the commentary or documentary on the DVD, he, Scorsese, mentioned that a lot of sync motors died during the filming. /Anders _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information