Could the video recorder of Blair Witch Project (original) last as long as it did?
I live next door to one of the producers of "Blair Witch Project," (1999) so that got me to watch the movie.
Not recalling how long a personal home video recorder could work, I was wondering whether a two day hike that turned into a horror might have been recorded, should it have really happened. I realize it's just a movie, but we can see 90 minutes or so, and the implication is that there is much more.
I'm curious if the amateur filming of Blair Witch Project could have happened (and how)?
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The action is shot on two cameras. A 16mm film camera [black and white] (which uses film magazines) and an RCA Hi8 Camcorder [color].
They state in the first few minutes [c.2:25] of the film that...
"We've got so much fuckin' battery power we could.... .fuel a small world country for a month."
So, assuming the film magazines and camcorder tapes/cassettes (whatever) were recovered...which is the conceit...then they seem to have been well supplied with batteries to power both devices.
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