The Camera that Changed the World

[Alex Maragos]

The summer of 1960 was a critical moment in the history of film, when the fly-on-the-wall documentary was born.
"The Camera that Changed the World" tells the story of the filmmakers and ingenious engineers who led this revolution
by building the first hand-held cameras that followed real life as it happened.

Momentum: "The Camera that Changed the World" BBC Four - Full Documentary Online

 

[Mark Toia]

AWESOME !

 

[Ivan Kovax]

Nice... I really enjoyed that. DA Pennebaker was one of my doco inspirations earlier on... so this was very cool to see.

Now please stop distracting me from my edit with interesting docos

 

[Paul Lee]

Very cool! When in school, I had the pleasure of driving Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus to the airport after a visiting artist thing. They were so nice and curious about school and what we were in to.

 

[Christian Edwards]

magnifique!

 

[Peter Strietmann]

The power of the moving image...

 

[Michael Ou]

Amazing, and it wasn't too long ago either. Very thankful to those pioneers of past and present, the fulfillment of their dreams is helping us realize ours.

 

[Kemalettin Sert]

http://www.reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?65073-The-Camera-That-Changed-the-World

 

[Ira Edelman]

really great, thanks!

 

[Rob Gardner]

Great to watch, but its hard to imagine doing this film and not mentioning Arriflex more than once. I started working in documentaries in 1968 and we were using Arri BL's and Arri S's before the SRI came out in 1975. While in 1960 the Auricon may have been a ground breaker, by 1968 it was in the junkyard. Just sayin'...

 

[Patrick Tresch]

Merci beaucoup.

Most inspiring moment @ 44'05'' ;-)

Patrick

 

[Marc Wielage]

Great to watch, but its hard to imagine doing this film and not mentioning Arriflex more than once.

Arriflex was mentioned in the section on the Kennedy documentary about 24-25 minutes in. The problem there was that those early Arris were very heavy and noisy, and it was only much later that they made them as relatively light and quiet as the Eclair.