Mario, Millicent Kent, and the tripod
Mario said his late dad had used a somewhat less snazzy IV-model Husky back in his early days of making art-films, when he also used a homemade dolly and sandbags and halogen spots instead of kliegs.
Context
Against Millicent's fled Old Man, Mario's easy fluency in his dead father's craft. Shown a tripod in the brush, Mario reflexively places it in his father's tool-lineage — the humbler IV-model Husky Himself used in the homemade-dolly-and-sandbags days — the way another son might know his father's old tools in a workshop. It's the tenderest form of the theme's transmission: not a wound but a trade, the one inheritance (film, lenses, rigs) that Jim and Mario genuinely shared, which scene 150 says was the only thing that let them be easy with each other. The father lives on for Mario as equipment and technique, lovingly.