From: johnl@iecc.com   
      
   >If the views at the start of the sequence are simply random snapshots from a   
   >balloon, they shouldn't be claimed to be movies! Could there have been such   
   >a thing as automatic shutter release and automatic film advance in 1905? A   
   >manned balloon wouldn't have exhibited such jerkiness; the successive shots   
   >would have been composed.   
      
   Of course there was.  There was an experimental movie camera powered   
   by an electric motor in 1891, and commercial movie makers before 1900.   
   For that short clip, I expect they used a camera powered by a wind-up   
   spring in an unmanned balloon.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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