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Philip Member Posts: 5952 From: Brussels, Belgium Registered: Jan 2001	posted 08-09-2012 11:51 AM Which make was the 16 mm camera used by the Apollo crews to film their inflight footage? (Swiss-made Bolex Paillard or US Westinghouse movie camera?) In the "Apollo 13" movie we can see Tom Hanks handling a long lens 16 mm movie camera connected to a power cable while he's floating from CSM to LM... Gemini crews used the McDonnell 16mm sequential camera!
Jay Chladek Member Posts: 2272 From: Bellevue, NE, USA Registered: Aug 2007	posted 08-09-2012 06:37 PM I thought the camera that Hanks as Lovell was using in the trek from the CSM to the LM was supposed to represent the color television camera, not the 16 mm film camera. The thing can't do both.
cycleroadie Member Posts: 452 From: Apalachin, NY USA Registered: May 2011	posted 08-09-2012 07:09 PM I agree, that was the TV camera in the movie.
Philip Member Posts: 5952 From: Brussels, Belgium Registered: Jan 2001	posted 08-10-2012 06:56 AM So that was a Westinghouse I suppose! An online reference.

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