[Frameworks] History question

[Tim Halloran]

Cranky Camper.

Regardless, a pretty cool little film Gregory.

Tim

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On Jun 26, 2016, at 9:08 AM, Fred Camper <f at fredcamper.com<mailto:f at fredcamper.com>> wrote:


The question of who was first with an  effect is the most unanswerable question in film history. You would have to see every film ever made, including all the ones that have been lost, to answer it.

Even if you could answer it, what would the answer mean?

Perhaps the first was a 1937 film by an amateur filmmaker in Finland that no one ever saw. So what would that fact signify? Even if "Koyaanisqatsi" "popularized" the effect, does that mean that every subsequent use of it was a result? Surely there are filmmakers since who discovered it on their own. If you are filming a car ride with a camera with single framing, it's kind of an obvious thing to try.

I'm pretty sure I've seen this in lesser known "experimental" films of the 1960s.

Personally, I hope no one tries it again (just kidding, but not completely).

Fred Camper
Chicago

On 6/26/2016 10:42 AM, Gutenko, Gregory wrote:

Hello All,

A historical question:

What was the first film to do a time-exposed single-frame sequence from a car/driver POV?  Koyaanisqatsi popularized the effect in 1983, but when was it first done?  I worked on a student film in 1975 called Nervous on the Road that featured this technique at mid-point, but surely we weren't the first, were we?  You can check a very compressed file of Nervous out on Vimeo at
https://vimeo.com/25296928

When we did this we were going for the slit-scan look of the stargate sequence from 2001, but that was an animation process and we were doing real-world cinematography with a wind-up Bolex.  It won an award at a film festival in 1997 and was broadcast over four midwest PBS stations in 1980 and not shown since.

So who originated this effect?

Gregory Gutenko



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