{"id":24675,"date":"2022-12-11T01:03:55","date_gmt":"2022-12-11T05:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=24675"},"modified":"2022-12-08T01:47:37","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T05:47:37","slug":"bowl-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/bowl-on\/","title":{"rendered":"bowl on"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_24677\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Cinematographers-trick-Popular-Mechanics-April-1948.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24677\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24677\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Cinematographers-trick-Popular-Mechanics-April-1948-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"157\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24677\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">a still shot from an article in the April, 1948 Popular Mechanics magazine<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. Here&#8217;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 <em>Big Smoke<\/em>, used this technique (totally unrelated to the Popular Mechanics article) to capture a curling sweep.<\/p>\n<p>George has been a movie\/video photographer ever since he was a kid. He writes, &#8220;Here&#8217;s an inventive cameraman filming a strike at a bowling alley in 1948.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The short clip was sold to the newly-opened CFTO-TV station&#8217;s sports Dept. &#8211; my one &amp; only film sale to TV!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Note. The title of this post came to mind when I recalled the song &#8220;Roll On Mississippi&#8221;, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jYoeXD4gqHU\">sung<\/a> here by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charley_Pride\">Charlie Pride<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. Here&#8217;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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/bowl-on\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1944],"tags":[2017,2369,613,495],"class_list":["post-24675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-article","tag-movie-short","tag-photo","tag-photograph"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24675"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24682,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24675\/revisions\/24682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}