Thought this was interesting

[wcwhitey]

It’s an old Colt from 1938 that was set up to take a photo every time the trigger is pulled.

 

[Hanshi]

A cop couldn't lie his way out of that one!

 

[trackskippy]

If anything needed that muzzle engraving.... "wait for the flash".

 

[NIGHTLORD40K]

A cop couldn't lie his way out of that one!

Or, it could confirm his testimony that the perp was armed and pointing a weapon at him.

 

[wcwhitey]

In 1938 Cops fired shots to get you to be quiet

 

[Jonesy814]

Gun camera footage. This technology was soon added to fighter plane machine guns to verify shoot downs

 

[RevolvingGarbage]

I would say it’s impressively compact for the technology available at the time.

 

[bannockburn]

wcwhitey

I would say that's pretty ingenious given the technology of that time period.

 

[Pat Riot]

Inset photos 3 and 4 look like someone jumping over a wall and someone diving over a hedge. I am guessing these are staged photos to show what the camera can do.

That is pretty ingenious for the time period and being a mechanical camera. One thing it shows me is the man or lady taking the shots (pun intended) had a pretty steady trigger pull.

 

[Poper]

Gun camera footage. This technology was soon added to fighter plane machine guns to verify shoot downs

Yes, but it wasn't untill mid 1944 that they set the camera up to over run the release of the trigger for several seconds. This was because pilots were complaining (rightfully so) that the enemy aircraft often exploded or crashed several seconds after the trigger was released, sometimes because the bullets fired from the plane's machine guns hadn't made it to the target yet. The early gun cameras were set to cease filming when the trigger was released. Victories's confirmations did increase with the over-running cameras.

 

[gobsauce]

Does anyone else want one now? I'd like one. "say cheese and die".

 

[FROGO207]

The origional GO PRO. Great piece of history there. Had heard about these but had never seen one before.