Gelotte and his cameras have been telling the fans where to got off ever since Gelotte and Richard Hallowell '20 showed Varsity coach Amie Horween in 1928 what could be done with a fast-moving shutter.
Horween got excited about football on films and arranged to have the two men shoot every game that season. Hallowell and Gelotte set up a method of consecutive photography that has been used ever since.
While one man grinds away with one camera, the other cameraman loads a 100-foot reel into the other camera.
When Night Falls
The system worked fine except for two obstacles. First, lenses and film worked slowly in 1928, and once the late afternoon shadows had set over the gridiron, movies were difficult to make. Modern technology cleared up this difficulty so that now even night game mov- les look like they were filmed at high soon.
This afternoon Gelotte and an assistant will set up shop high over the Harvard-Yale game to tell Coach Valpey what happened in thousands of pictures worth millions of words. The reels may go in moth balls soon after today's battle, but when Spring and pre-season practice call again, the coaches will once more study the movies, an indelibe guide to the football strategy of the future