Science: Superfast Films

Announced last week was a new motion-picture camera so fast that it can take movies at 11,000,000 frames a second—more than ten times as fast as any previous machine. Developed by the University of Rochester's Dr. Brian O'Brien and Gordon G. Milne, the new camera produces a picture that is a ragged blur, but good enough for scientific studies and measurements. A bullet, photographed by this slow-motion technique, travels only an inch in a minute.

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