Wollensak Fastax High Speed Camera

Vintage educational film about the uses and technology of the Wollensak Fastax High Speed Cameras. Own a piece of history!
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[@HonJazzz]

I just picked one up today!

[@Pleezath]

just got the goose unit.. now i want a camera too

[@Gunbudder]

My grandpa used to use one of these! He always told a story about how his company made the first US Army "approved" hollywood simulation of a hand grenade. Basically the US Army was financing a film and they wanted a realistic hand grenade based on how a real grenade looked when filmed. so, they went to my grandpa's company who specialized in custom pyrotechnics (and also had a Fastax) and they gave my grandpa a few real hand grenades to film at high speed. the idea was that they would then build a pyrotechnic device that produced the same amount of fire but without the lethal shrapnel or concussion. my grandpa severely underestimated the power of a real hand grenade (he was Navy and had never used one) and when he set it off, it completely destroyed his test rig, and it threw the blast shield in front of the Fastax backwards, knocking the camera quite some distance away. the film was not destroyed though, and they were able to complete their project lol. its not even a footnote in cinema history though because apparently the new pyrotechnic device they made wasn't that different from the existing ones and wasn't as visually exciting as the huge fireballs hollywood normally uses, so everyone just stuck with the existing methods that were technically inaccurate

[@Pleezath]

thats a cool story. any chance the film still survived till today?

[@juliozavala5865]

I need to know if fastax are easy to develop

[@user-gg1se7fx2b]

1961 or 1962. 8.14 Clint Eastwood

[@juliozavala5865]

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