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A Disturbance in the Force
Alien autopsy footage
Point being that hand held cameras were readily available in the sixties for the general public, so I'm sure the military had them long before that - heck in the thirties, people like Fritz Lang were already reducing the size of those old huge film cameras and rigging them for greater portability (no sound, of course).
Not that it proves anything one way or the other, but my dad had a silent Super 8 film movie camera in the sixties when I was little - it was hand held and very simple - seems he took the film in to be developed and then we would watch it on this big projector with reel to reel Super 8 film - it was really cool, the whole experience, the ticking of the projector - woah, I wandered off on a tangent there, sorry.the rabbit said:"To me this is a little dodgy cuz i remember the video cameras from the eighties and those things were enormous.... even the smaller one's had to sit on your shoulder and extended at least to the top of your head. anyone else notice this?"
Well i dont know much about cameras,but the early hand cams where small enough,a friend of mine had one in the early 60s when i was growing up.No sound ,silent film.so i dont see a problem with it being a small camera.
Point being that hand held cameras were readily available in the sixties for the general public, so I'm sure the military had them long before that - heck in the thirties, people like Fritz Lang were already reducing the size of those old huge film cameras and rigging them for greater portability (no sound, of course).