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Topic: How'd they USED to make subtitles?
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Stephen Furley
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Posts: 3059
From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England
Registered: May 2002
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posted 08-26-2006 03:33 AM
Bouncing balls weren't always on film; sometimes they performed 'live'. A Brenograph attachment was available to project a bouncing ball from one lantern, and lantern slides with the words from the other. Come to think about it, you could get attachemnts to do just about anything with a Brenograph. I've only ever seen one once, and it took two operators on the machine to use the thing, one changing the slides and the other bouncing the ball. I'm not sure if it was made by Brenkert, or if it was a third-party product; it doesn't appear in their catalogue.
I suppose you could do it without even having the attachment by using a pinhole slide, and moving the main mirror by hand, but the attachment made it easier. It had a rod with a knob on the end; you twisted the rod to move the ball up and down, and puled it in and out to move from side to side.
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