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A rostrum camera stand used for shooting animation. A rostrum camera is a specially designed camera used in television production and filmmaking to animate a still picture or object. It consists of a moving lower platform on which the article to be filmed is placed, while the camera is placed above on a column.
Ken Morse (born c. 1944) is a British rostrum camera operator who has provided visual effects to BBC television programmes over several decades. [1]Ken Morse worked as a cinema projectionist from the age of 12 for about 10 years.
An animation camera manufactured by Crass, Berlin, in 1957. An animation camera, a type of rostrum camera, is a movie camera specially adapted for frame-by-frame shooting of animation. It consists of a camera body with lens and film magazines, and is most often placed on a stand that allows the camera to be raised and lowered above a table ...
In the later years of the animation rostrum camera, stepper motors controlled by computers were attached to the various axes of movement of the camera, thus saving many hours of hand cranking by human operators. Gradually, motion control techniques were adopted throughout the industry.
Rostrum is heavily used for television work, and (at least in the UK) this normally involves video, not film. There are also rostrum camera software available such as DigiRostrum and a similar function in Avid. As these are specific to the requirements of rostrum work, and not animation it wouldn't make sense to combine the two articles.
Camera Effects was a film opticals (post-production and visual effects) studio based in Soho, London, from 1964 till its closure in 1987. It had a world wide reputation for producing film special effects and titles for television commercial and feature film projects. [ 1 ]
In film editing, the technique may be achieved through the use of a rostrum camera, although today it is more common to use digital editing. Virtually all non-linear editing systems provide a tool to implement the simplistic effect, although only some software, such as iMovie and Openshot for Linux , specifically call it a Ken Burns Effect; it ...
A rostrum camera is a specially designed camera used in television production and filmmaking to animate a still picture or object. It consists of a moving lower platform on which the article to be filmed is placed, while the camera is placed above on a column.