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Filmmakers faced stiff competition at the 1957 Oscars: "12 Angry Men," "Peyton Place," "The Bridge on the River Kwai" Far from Hollywood, consumers, too, were making Movies--the from kind. Home-movie cameras, $50 to $150, were powered by a key-wound motor that ran 30 or 45 seconds. They shot 50-foot rolls of Kodachrome ($3.90 with developing) for 4-minute "shorts." No zoom, autofocus, or light meter, and you needed a projector,
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