Trinity & Beyond photograhy?

[Canonista]

Here's a screenshot from the movie "Trinity and Beyond". A bus is ablaze and being tossed by an atomic blast's pressure wave.
http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r288/Canonista/BlastPhoto.jpg

The bus is blown away from the camera. The camera has to have been between the blast and the subject for this shot.

How do you build or house a camera to survive a nuclear blast? Does anybody know how they were constructed or better yet have a photo of an old one?

[thekid24]

They probably used mirrors to get the shot, and placed the camera underground. Of course the box or whatever it was that held the mirrors would probably been blown away as well. Who knows thats just a guess without researching it:D

[mkuriger]

hmm, trick photography is pretty common where I work (warnerbros)

[Glenn NK]

Isn't this a movie/cinema? As in make believe?

[Canonista]

Isn't this a movie/cinema? As in make believe?


No, it's a documentary using, among many sources, formerly classified footage from nuclear weapons testing from the 40's, 50's, and 60's. It is VERY entertaining.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114728/

[Woolburr]

Not trick photography or special effects...the images were taken via a camera mounted to a periscope in an underground bunker. Details provide on the History Channel earlier this past week.