Cranks and Motors - Text 12
In Europe, many adventurous filmmakers relied on the extremely compact Debrie Sept, which was also driven by a spring-wound clockwork motor, to produce daring shots. One of them was Abel Gance, the director of the monumental Napoléon (1927), who famously asked his crew to use Sept cameras in an attempt to produce subjective shots from the point of view of a snowball (the results were not really satisfactory).
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