I'm a cameraman for a living as well as a prop collector. It's always been interesting to me that my career and hobby crossed paths in Star Wars with the camera parts used as the props we have come to admire.
I was just watching a documentary on Netflix call "Shooting Iwo Jima" and came to find out it was a Graflex that recorded the iconic raising of the flag photo.
There are some great shots of the Graflex cameras used to record the images of the battle and the some of the photographer/soldiers who gave their lives while shooting both film and bullets.
I'd never seen the camera and the flash in this context before. Looking at my saber on the shelf, I wonder at the history our props may have witnessed.
I thought I'd share a couple of images from the film.
I was just watching a documentary on Netflix call "Shooting Iwo Jima" and came to find out it was a Graflex that recorded the iconic raising of the flag photo.
There are some great shots of the Graflex cameras used to record the images of the battle and the some of the photographer/soldiers who gave their lives while shooting both film and bullets.
I'd never seen the camera and the flash in this context before. Looking at my saber on the shelf, I wonder at the history our props may have witnessed.
I thought I'd share a couple of images from the film.
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