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Frames of Reference
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We made Frames of Reference with two Canadian physicists, Patterson Hume and Donald Ivey from the University of Toronto. This one we filmed in a studio with elaborate sets ingeniously contrived to confuse. It was great fun and is still shown at the start of each year to the incoming freshmen at MIT.

A special rotating camera being used for one of the many “trick shots” in the physics film “Frames of Reference”.
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