How do you capture dazzling and terrifying atomic bomb explosions on film? Blazing fast speed, that’s how.
Director Christopher Nolan always focuses on finding the best camera to tell his stories. While he has been a champion of large-format film since shooting sequences of The Dark Knight on IMAX cameras, Nolan is taking a slightly different approach for his upcoming epic, Oppenheimer.
While Nolan is still using IMAX film cameras for his story about American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in developing the atomic bomb, the director needed specific cameras to showcase the awe-striking glory and all-consuming horror of an atomic bomb exploding. The team at Kodak Photochem also developed IMAX film in back-and-white for segments of the movie.
Capturing the Atomic Devastation
Sources revealed that one of the cameras Nolan and cinematographer Hoyte Van Hoytema used was a Photo-Sonics 35mm 4C high-speed rotary prism camera, which is capable of 2,500 frames per second.
Author: Alyssa Miller
This article comes from No Film School and can be read on the original site.
