MURNAU’S INGENUITY
NEW MACHINE ‘THE GO-DEVIL!” Camera men on the Fox lot are wondering uneasily where the ingenuity of F. W. Murnau, imported director, who made “Sunrise,” will lead them next. Having worked out a pabulum for “The Four Devils,” now in production, “a bird’s eye view of emotional scenes,” Murnau ordered a mechanical device capable of sending the cameras in wild, giddy dives through space. Nicknamed “the go-devil,” Murnau’s machine is 50 feet high, weighs 20 tons and is operated by electric motors and hydraulic power. Some complexity in the engineering principles involved springs from the director’s desire to combine speed and smoothness in the mechanism. A boom projects from a central revolving column, and to this boom is attached the car into which director, cameras and camera men are loaded. In action the cameras shoot from any conceivable angle, some of them bewildering to the camera men. The car can be made to shoot through space at high speed or go into more nose dives and tail spins than an airplane.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 370, 2 June 1928, Page 25
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