While the
Edison crank camera
was used a lot back
in the silent movie days,
it’s been used way more
in charades
“Western & Sixth”
By Matt McChristy
Copyright © 2017 all rights reserved
chapter II
Was the game of charades built upon piracy?
While the
Edison crank camera
was used a lot back
in the silent movie days,
it’s been used way more
in charades
“Western & Sixth”
By Matt McChristy
Copyright © 2017 all rights reserved
chapter II
Was the game of charades built upon piracy?
t r e f o l o g y 
You’ve got me thinking. If Edison made cameras for cranks, why not a bespoke camera for the relatively normal?
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Relatively?
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True enough.
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When charading, I always mime cranking backwards in a futile attempt to turn back time.
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A noble effort to be sure, but in the end it’s just best to see charades thru to the end.
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Sage advice.
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Reblogged this on davidbruceblog and commented:
Quite true, I believe.
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I recently watched Charade, which stars Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn. Although most of this movie was apparently filmed using the Edison crank camera, you’d never know it. The Technicolor is top notch. When not needed to appear in a scene, I think Walter Matthau, James Coburn, and George Kennedy took their turn at the crank.
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I think by the 1950s they had replaced the crank with a hamster wheel
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How interesting. I never realized that’s what that was all about in charades. I guess I had some vague notion it was for an old camera, but now it becomes clear!
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Astute observation.
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