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This happened in Berks County back in 2010, and the Apaches were from the PA National Guard in Fort Indiantown Gap. The reason for the high quality footage is that there just so happened to be a video production house nearby, so of course they jumped on it.
Well, that was abysmally murky. Is it too much to ask for the writer to have a clear idea which makes sense before a movie gets made out of what he's written?
Many years ago I built a continuous film processing machine and for take-up I mounted the spool holder directly on a motor shaft and powered the motor with a micro switch activated by a tensioning arm. It was easy to build and worked well in the low speed application.
The other Apache was probably there to prevent any theft to the downed Apache, unlikely as it may be. Similar protocol to nuclear transportation if I had to guess
Sci Fi with an absurdist, French New Wave non-ending. Pretty gutsy, especially if you know how films get green lighted and distributed. Game is changing. This is the new king.
Guy 1: “you see that German flag over there?” Guy 2: “yeah” Guy 1: “Now tell me, how the heck did we end up stranded in Germany while flying over Pennsylvania?”
Judging by the UCP ACU, the 2005 Ford Explorer Police cruiser, and the baggy basketball shorts that go past the knee, this incident happened sometime in the late 2000's. So we are looking at least 15 year old footage here.
Hey , must have been a privilege to have your Military need and depend on your Farm to land and work out the problem. A Great Story you can tell for the ages. Looks like everything worked out OK. Cheers...!
It should be relatively trivial to take a control board that's designed for a 3D printer and reprogram it to drive those 2 steppers (or even all 3) in sync. There also would be inputs available for loop-size sensors, either microswitches with rollers or optical ones. However, this would require someone for whom programming those things is within their skill range... A side effect of this approach would be greater stability and faster speed. The latter because the controller could drive the motors at a variable speed instead of one that's dictated by how long the frame needs to be exposed. It could speed up for transport and pause for exposure. And that pausing could extend to all motors, providing greater stability as the picture is taken while all movement has ceased. It might be worth it to reach out to the 3D printer community; it's full of people who love these kinds of projects. That's how 3D printing at home started, after all...
For rigidity, there's one very simple trick: Put the plate under tension in the opposite direction it wants to flex from the weight you put onto it. That way, the unwanted flex has to work against the rod or wire you use to tension---but as those already are under tension, they won't move any more.
I wonder if it wouldn't be easier to only use the mechanism for precise transport but capture the film at another point in its path. With a tensioner in the intake path and running it over two simple side rails just before it enters the movements, it should be quite stable there, too. This wouldn't work at full speed, but at 1 fps...
It's interesting how you, with a movie background, immediately throw the images into video editing software. I, with more of a picture background, would have run them through batch processing in an image editor first, then sorted the images into folders by cut manually, and only then imported that into a video editor.
I like science fiction and it held my interest to the end. I suppose the ending could have been better. There are so many possibilities when enter the world of fantasy. Good camera work and characters.
Love your washboard videos. My wife and I bought a used smallish Dubl Handi washboard on eBay and then some thimbles from Walmart but they're too big for my wife. Please let me know where you get yours especially if you mail order them. Thanks
Great use of the bulbs for the light source. I've been poking at a compact slide capture system I can just connect to a kodak carousel projector with as few as possible modifications. I've been using a Ulanzi-49 lamp for my backlight but i like your solution too!
There was an optional sound-on-film magnetic sound recording module for pre-striped film. It seems like the 16BL was used more for documentary work, as it was very rugged and reliable, but heavy. A lot of local news stations used the Cinema Products CP cameras, again with magnetic sound on film. I started working in broadcasting slightly after this era - I used an RCA TK76 tube camera and a 3/4" U-matic portable deck.
@@FreshGroundPicturesI have an RCA TK-76C. It needs a power supply re-cap, but it's a very famous ENG camera, used mostly by NBC News back then. I also have a Sony BVU-110 U-matic deck too. Other cameras I have include a Sony Betacam BVV-1A/BVP-3A camera (which works fine) and an Ikegami HL-79E which I'm fixing up right now.
