Dolly
noun
Subject Field: Cinematography

A set of wheels and a platform upon which the camera can be mounted to give it mobility. Monaco			- Contained in - Tracking shot Bibliography Index Home Conceptual tree
Context: It all started in 1970 when two young French cameramen' Jean-Marie Lavalou and Alain Masseron, had a problem filming inside an operational submarine. They needed to track their camera above and below and between the tightly-packed instruments, along the narrow walkways, through bulkheads and up and into the conning tower. Their solution was to attach a wooden scaffold pole to a heavy-duty pan-and-tilt head mounted on a narrow Elemack "Corridor" dolly. At the end of the pole they secured, upside-down, a gyro pan-and-tilt head, and onto this they attached a 35mm Cameflex camera. With this crude device they managed to fly the camera around the submarine, past the periscope, over the plotting table, between instruments and even into the crew mess room. Samuelson Attestation: 3 Dolly Reliability: 3