What a wonderful film. I worked with the 16S, 16BL, 16M and the SR1. I also own an extremely early 35 "HandKamera" serial #675 making it the 175th Arri reflex camera built as serial numbers started at 500. This film really makes me appreciate the precision engineering and superb design of Arriflex motion picture cameras!
@@computationalerror69 Early history is very dark in that it was a camera used by the Nazi propaganda unit under Goebbels . After that nothing until I bought it from a very small production company in Stuttgart. I wish I could at least get the service history on the camera from Arriflex.
Thank's a lot for this good documentary. I worked with the AATON A-Minima Super 16mm , but appreciate a lot the Arri goal for perfection. (As Leica M film cameras that I loved !) German mechanics at his best!
Wonderful film and wonderful cameras. My first camera an Arriflex S. In the late 90's I worked with a camera operator who worked on 1990 Tom Cruise "Days of Thunder" stock car racing movie. He said using Arri 2C camera's for things like car mounts and crash camera's in steel crash housings they demolished 18 Arri 2C camera's. While watching dailies of the film they shot the previous day of race cars crashing he saw an Arri 2C camera body minus a magazine and lens flying through the air in slow motion go across the screen. Funny but sad to. What can you do put all the camera parts you can find in a box and send it back to the camera rental house. Myself a focus puller and two Arriflex SR 16mm camera's got knocked down over the hood of a stunt car that slid past it planned stop. I jumped up went over the hood to the side like a stunt man luckily ok, my DP's Arri on a tripod pitched forward punched two holes with matte box rods in hood then went flying the other way down the street where it hit the ground damaging lens mount, broke off the eyepiece and magazine which opened the feed side film rolling out in the street and take up side film the previous 4 hours of stunt work safe inside. The second Arri a rental house camera one tripod leg got kicked out and it fell over. First question from the second unit director "Is he OK? to the medic (Me, yes). Second question, does that other camera that fell over still work? Yes, it did and they kept filming the rest of the day and I went to the emergency room for check out. When the insurance company got my DP's Arri camera parts back the conclusion was it can be fixed and it was fixed and kept working. When the Rental house got their Arri camera back that fell over then kept filming their conclusion was "a total write off" camera destroyed ! The 'frame was bent" and charged for a new camera. I'm certain that Arriflex SR camera kept working for somebody and is still out there somewhere To me the Arriflex IIC design and function is finer than a Porsche 911.
