Excitement (silent)

Description: Footage shot from swinging camera, showing palm trees, view from a train, and views outside Seaquarium, photographed with a Cinesphere (very wide) lens. Cinesphere is an invention by Jam Handy, an immersive cinema experience.

Notes on leader: Let's Swing Seq. Hold Takes 29 of Gore Canyon Seq

M5665 - Cinesphere Gore Canyon Hold Takes

Jam Handy Production No. M5665

Notes on Cinesphere: "In the mid 1940s, Jam Handy Organization began to develop a new optical system. The 'Cine Sphere' was unveiled by Chevrolet in a circular theater at the Detroit Automobile Show. While conventional photography lost much of its reality because there was no way to translate depth perception, the optical system's 143 degree lens increased the field of view by mimicking the typical range of the human eye. Jam Handy Organization worked alongside the Kollsman Instrument Corporation of Elmhurst, New York, to develop the wide-angled lens and project Navy training films on a semi-spherical screen. The technique provided a realistic simulation so that the trainee could simulate his position in an aircraft, and learn to fire at incoming targets from a wide range of possible locations. The result was nothing short of miraculous. Naval trainee gunners showed such an improvement in their aim that their ratings were elevated to the category of expert. Technological advances in the military eventually replaced visual aerial gunnery and Handy's new optical system became obsolete as a training tool for trainee gunners. Cine-Globe [sic] continued to find new uses as a training tool for Navy Aviation cadets to practice carrier landings. But the new optical system had significant theatrical possibilities which the commercial motion picture industry eventually incorporated into the popular motion picture format known as IMAX."

Source: https://detroitmi.gov/sites/detroitmi.localhost/files/2018-08/Jam%20Handy%20North%20End%20East%20Grand%20Blvd_Final%20Report.pdf (accessed September 5, 2023)

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Subjects: Oddities

Tags: front of train POV; snowy tracks; palm trees; Seaquarium; monorail; camera on swing; fisheye lens; Cinesphere; clapperboard cuties; front of train in snow POV; railroad tracks; signs; Gore Canyon; test footage

Film Sponsor: Chevrolet Division, General Motors Corporation

Creator: Jam Handy Organization

Credits: Director: Len Evans

Camera: Fenimore

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Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Jam Handy Organization

Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive

Production Date: 1964

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Geographical Location: San Diego, California; California; USA; Gore Canyon, Colorado

Genre/Form: outtakes and trims

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Film Format: 35mm film

Element: outs/trims

Color: color

Color Process: Eastman Color

Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: circle triangle

Frame Rate: 24 fps

Length (feet): 650