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Sam Peckinpah
FilmmakerKnown for: The Wild Bunch (1969), Straw Dogs (1971)
Sam Peckinpah directed Ride the High Country (1962) and Major Dundee (1965) before The Wild Bunch (1969) — the most formally radical Western ever made by a major studio — used multiple cameras, slow motion, and extremely rapid editing to decompose the action sequence into something closer to balletic abstraction than narrative. Straw Dogs (1971) and Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974) extended his preoccupation with violence, loyalty, and masculinity. His confrontations with studio executives were as legendary as his films.
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Panavision
The Panaflex Gold is a 35mm motion picture camera produced by Panavision, a company that manufactures equipment exclusively for rental to productions. Its near-silent operation and compatibility with Panavision's proprietary anamorphic and spherical lens systems made it a standard for Hollywood features from the 1980s onward. Christopher Nolan and many other directors continue to use Panavision equipment for productions shot on film.
“Peckinpah shot "The Wild Bunch" (1969) using six Panavision cameras simultaneously for the film's action sequences, a scale of multi-camera operation unprecedented in Hollywood Westerns. The production's use of Panavision cameras and anamorphic lenses at varying frame rates — from 120 frames per second down to 12 — is documented in Garner Simmons's "Peckinpah: A Portrait in Montage" (1982) and in the BFI's production notes.”
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