MOTO-SCAT

Window envy + Renault R6 envy.

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Here's an image I nicked from Barrett's once-great innuendo-led period photo thread involving ladies and motor cars on the brown pages. It looks like the launch of the V12 E-Type, which dates this photo as no earlier than 1971 and as such what interests me most is the rudimentary camera dolly still in use. It seems that camera dollies were conceived during WWII, when it became apparent that the dollies used to load bombs into aeroplanes utilising a hydraulic arm could offer a nice camera effect. British versions were often built around light car chassis' such as the Austin Seven's; there's an example on display at the National Media Museum in Bradford.

The thing is, I thought all this primitive home built stuff only really related to the austerity years of the 1950's and perhaps spilt a little in to the 60's but it seems not. This one's obviously custom built and I suppose seems in keeping with the OB video camera, which looks like it was constructed by school children, however advanced it may have been at the time. Modern dollies are much smaller but then so are today's cameras, I suppose.

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