Film Still, Le Petit Soldat (1960) – Jean-Luc Godard
Compared to his meticulous Alphaville, Le Petit Soldat looks like it could have been shot using a Sony PortaPack. Of course it was too early for a PortaPack, but I still have suspicions that it was at least partially shot on video equipment. The frame rate appears much closer to 30fps than 24fps. I also hold this belief despite evidence to the contrary: IMDB lists 35mm as the source medium, and the script includes the line “cinema is reality at 24 frames per second”. What a trickster if he was recording that line at 30 frames per second. Whatever he used, it didn’t hinder the power of this shot.
