a still shot from an article in the April, 1948 Popular Mechanics magazine
Toronto. Here’s one way to take a neat video of a bowling strike. The technique can be used in other sports too. George Dunbar, a retired cameraman for IBM here in the Big Smoke, used this technique (totally unrelated to the Popular Mechanics article) to capture a curling sweep.
George has been a movie/video photographer ever since he was a kid. He writes, “Here’s an inventive cameraman filming a strike at a bowling alley in 1948.
“Twelve years later, 1960 (having never seen this magazine item), I made a similar 16mm film-shot at a curling rink.Running on the ice was a treacherous experience, however the film ended with a perfect stone to the house.
“The short clip was sold to the newly-opened CFTO-TV station’s sports Dept. – my one & only film sale to TV!”
Note. The title of this post came to mind when I recalled the song “Roll On Mississippi”, sung here by Charlie Pride.
