Camera, no. Lights, okay. Signed, Sound Dept. (we’ll be in our trailer) (charging our batteries for when we get the car to record every noise that can be made with it)
Milwaukee Mile 1960... Tony Bettenhausen #96... started 8th and finished 1st in his Linne owned Offenhauser.
Milwaukee Mile 1961.. Al Keller #19 in his Bruce Homeyer owned Offenhauser... Started 14th and finished 10th.
Yes, the small engine powers a generator that is used to power the lights and the camera. There are two small fresnel lighting instruments mounted on the bar in front of the windshield. The camera also has an electric motor drive.
No, the camera would have required power. Some were DC powered, but most ran off of the AC power on the set. The sound would have been VERY secondary and most likely added in post production. In location shots like this they might have been recording sound, but the picture was WAYYYY more important and the sound may or may not have been exciting enough. I worked on more film shoots with cars and trucks racing around than I can list. I did everything from being the gennie op to location sound over the years.
The sound HAD to have been added after the filming, the Mustang up shifts about twenty times and never downshifts.
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