Wheelchair Dolly
Applications
A dolly is critical to nearly any film that wants to appear like a professional production. Occasionally you see a film with lots of energy that has almost no dolly shots (the original Star Wars comes to mind), but most filmmakers use dollies extensively to provide their films with extra emotional power. While several dolly construction designs are provided in this book, the simplest and in some cases most effective requires not assembly at all – the wheelchair dolly.
Since the dawn of hand-held cameras, filmmakers have been using traditional wheel chairs (see figure 12-1) as a cheap and effective method of obtaining ...
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