This excellent YouTube video demonstrates how some amazing early Hollywood camera tricks were done. Stunts by Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, and Charlie Chaplin are still astounding today. As a kid, I ...

The Ansco Memo of the late 1920s is a fascinating piece of American camera history. It was designed to shoot cheap 35mm movie film using proprietary cartridges that held 50 exposures (this at a time ...