Camera
ARRI
Arriflex S
ARRI's 16mm MOS production camera, introduced in 1952. It was the first professional 16mm camera with a reflex viewing system, built around ARRI's twin-bladed "butterfly" mirror shutter. Uses a three-lens turret with ARRI standard mounts, accepting 100-foot internal spools or 400-foot external magazines. Over 20,000 units were sold, making it one of ARRI's most commercially successful cameras.
Artists who use this(2)
Connection note
DP Babette Mangolte borrowed Robert Rauschenberg's Arriflex S to shoot La Chambre (1972); the noisy camera limited its use on later films
Connection note
Borrowed from Robert Rauschenberg (owned by Yvonne Rainer). Used to shoot Akerman's La chambre and Rainer's Lives of Performers (1972)
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