Rich wrote:

I'm not sure how they did those shots, but there have been
cameras that have used things like spinning octagonal or
multi-sided mirrors that could "flash" exposures across several
feet of filmstock in a fraction of a second. For slower (but still
fast) shooting, cameras have been equipped with high speed
motor winders that took movie film at a high rate of speed,
thousands of frames per second.

Mechanical devices are orders of magnitude too slow to achieve these
results. Repeat of a post to r.p.e.35mm:

Alan Browne wrote:

Probably a high speed cine camera, eg, 1000's of frames per second with
exposure times on the order of 1/4000 to 1/10,000

Exposure time was much less, on the order of ten nanoseconds. Google
rapatronic. Each camera took one frame. A starting point:

http://simplethinking.com/home/rapat...hotographs.htm
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Andy Williams