Projector for the projection of a panoramic image and camera for the

Abstract

A motion picture projector, camera, and film for a panoramic motion picture. The projector advances a film strip along a cylindrical path for the projection of a panoramic image. Substantially identical condenser lenses with light sources are mounted inside the cylindrical film path aligned with and connected to projection lenses outside the cylindrical path. The condensers and projection lenses are rotated together at a speed other than the speed of movement of the film. The ratio of the angular velocity of the film to the angular velocity of the projection lenses is n:(n-1), where n is the number of projection lenses. Each projection lens projects a section of the film that has a length of 360.degree./(n(n-1)). The film strip has n series of portions representing n sectors of the panoramic scene, the time sequential portions of one series having n-1 intervening portions of other series therebetween. A camera for producing the film is similar in layout to the projector. The camera moves film and objective lenses with shutters and diaphragms at an angular velocity ratio of n:(n-1).