[Konvas] Sond Barneys

[Peter Haas]

On Sep 3, 2009, at 3:46 PM, Adam Frey wrote:

> Warning: I've never built a sound proof booth for use with my  
> Konvas, but the concept is quite simple and it should work, at  
> least to a certain extent. If you're good with tools though, it  
> should only take a few hours.

They were used for years and years before the perfection of the blimp- 
less/silent Fox Studio Camera and the blimped/newsreel Mitchell NC  
camera.

Since there were only three BNCs made until after WW-II, most  
studios, except for Fox, had to employ blimps -- mainly Rabys -- or  
barneys -- for sound shooting until the War was won.

Incredibly, even as late as the mid-1950s, blimps were in use,  
perhaps most significantly on "The Bridge on the River Kwai", in  
which case the blimp had to be significantly modified to include the  
very large B&L "combined"  CinemaScopes, which Horizon Productions  
(U.K.) had borrowed from Fox.

Horizon called these a "composite" camera, which I suppose is an  
accurate statement.

If given a free hand, a BNC and adapted B&L "combined" CinemaScopes  
would have been used.