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Is that some sort of lighting rig on a parallel track? Is there any more information about how this film was made? Seems like a pretty big achievement for the t

Is that some sort of lighting rig on a parallel track? Is there any more information about how this film was made? Seems like a pretty big achievement for the time.

maxerickson 13y ago
The company that filmed it started producing movies in 1895, so they probably had a handle on the film aspects by 1905: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0000524/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0000524/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Mutoscope_and_Biograph_Company https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Mutoscope_and_Biograp... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Bitzer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Bitzer I think there is only a parallel train for a portion of the trip, so I agree with the sibling that the lighting is coming from the train behind.
greenyoda 13y ago
It looks like it was shot from another train that was following the pictured one. There may have been additional lighting, but the train could have just been illuminated by the headlights of the train behind it.
- leviathant 13y ago
  There is a third train running parallel to the train that is ahead of the camera train, throughout the entire trip. It almost looks like it has an array of fluorescent tubes or mercury vapor lamps. Sometimes the train with the lighting rig gets a little bit ahead of its subject, which is why the train being filmed gets dark from time to time, but you can see this rig clearly at the beginning, and towards the end, the camera train pulls close enough that you can see the staff on the lighting rig train walking about its platform.
  - conorgil145 13y ago
    You can clearly see the third train providing lighting at 3:10. Very interesting.
    - greenyoda 13y ago
      It looks like the third train is pulling some kind of open car behind it that has the lights mounted on it. At about 3:50, you can see a guy step from this rig into the back door of the train that's pulling it.

Is that some sort of lighting rig on a parallel track? Is there any more information about how this film was made? Seems like a pretty big achievement for the time.

maxerickson 13y ago

The company that filmed it started producing movies in 1895, so they probably had a handle on the film aspects by 1905: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0000524/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0000524/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Mutoscope_and_Biograph_Company https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Mutoscope_and_Biograp... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Bitzer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Bitzer I think there is only a parallel train for a portion of the trip, so I agree with the sibling that the lighting is coming from the train behind.

greenyoda 13y ago

It looks like it was shot from another train that was following the pictured one. There may have been additional lighting, but the train could have just been illuminated by the headlights of the train behind it.

leviathant 13y ago
There is a third train running parallel to the train that is ahead of the camera train, throughout the entire trip. It almost looks like it has an array of fluorescent tubes or mercury vapor lamps. Sometimes the train with the lighting rig gets a little bit ahead of its subject, which is why the train being filmed gets dark from time to time, but you can see this rig clearly at the beginning, and towards the end, the camera train pulls close enough that you can see the staff on the lighting rig train walking about its platform.
- conorgil145 13y ago
  You can clearly see the third train providing lighting at 3:10. Very interesting.
  - greenyoda 13y ago
    It looks like the third train is pulling some kind of open car behind it that has the lights mounted on it. At about 3:50, you can see a guy step from this rig into the back door of the train that's pulling it.