----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Goldstein" <egoldste@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 10:50 AM
Subject: [rollei_list] Re: Weegee's strange rolleiflex !
I'll defer to you Richard but that looks like no blimp I
have ever
seen and sure doesn't inspire a lot of confidence that it
would do
much...
Eric Goldstein
Look very carefully above Weegee's left shoulder. you
can see part of a Mitchell NC. Note that the magazine is
visible as a wedge, this is the opening where the top cover
of the blimp is hinged up at the front. You can just make
our a label saying "Sheperton Studio" just diagonally above
and to the right (in the picture) of Weegee's cap, that is
on the top of the blimp. The lower part of the blimp is
mostly hidden behind Weegee but you can see just a bit of
it. Its on a gear head, being English probably a Worral
(sp?) you can just see the panning wheel with part of the
operator's hand on it.
The blimp is open probably so that the operator can
mark the log on the magazine.
Since this is English its not a Raby blimp but very
similar blimps were made by any of several companies. I
can't remember the name of the outfit that represented
Mitchell in the UK. There is what looks like a microphone on
a boom at the left top of the picture. I wish it were
clearer because it looks like the copy of the Western
Electric 630A "8-Ball" made by Standard Telephones & Cables
who had the rights to WE stuff in England. They continued to
make their own versions of the 633 and 639 mics until
perhaps twenty years ago. The mics were actually manuactured
by Coles who also made the STC mics used by the BBC.
--
Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles, CA, USA
dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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