Old autos, 1969 December 04

Item — video: 10

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Antique car collector, M. B. Held, in Farmington, Utah. 02:13.

Louise Degn's note: In those days, I often travelled the back roads from Salt Lake to Ogden where my mother lived. Driving through Farmington, I'd always see a neat row of antique cars in a field located behind the house at 547 North Main, east of Lagoon. One day I stopped to investigate. The photographer on this story was Darius Gray. He shot the interview with an Airflex sound camera. The beginning uses old archival film of "horseless carriages" from a historic stock footage archive owned by KSL. I wanted to recreate that look for the ending of the story, so Darius used a Bolex silent camera, which has variable speed settings. He shot the scene in a slower speed so that when it was projected back at normal speed, it looks faster than normal. After three months on the job, this was the first story I did at KSL that I thought "worked". Photographer/Editor: Darius Gray. Original script available.

Dates

1969 December 04

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