Word: cameraman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ride of the Valkyries ended the program, brought the audience to its feet, too moved at first to cheer the conductor as he turned from the players, looking suddenly tired. In that tense moment a news cameraman popped up at the footlights, exploded a flashlight directly in the Maestro's face. Toscanini fled to the wings. Out leaped Bruno Zirato, the Philharmonic's assistant manager, to seize the photographer by the scruff, hustle him out to the lobby where detectives and doormen de prived him of his camera and the plate he had used...
...lobby the luckless cameraman was identified as Frank Muto of Hearst's International News Photos, who had bought a seat early, kept his camera hidden until the chance came to snap the conductor bowing his goodbye. The audience filed out denouncing the Hearstling as a "desecrator," a "barbarian," a "vandal." But Frank Muto Was unabashed while he waited to get his camera back. One blazing-eyed young woman marched up to him and flayed him for having "marred the ending of a great historic concert." "But it might have been a grand picture," retorted Frank Muto...
John Q. Dohp's real name is David Oliver. A crack cameraman who has cranked for Universal and other companies for 18 years, David Oliver has also been an energetic parlor mimic. When his friends told him he belonged in pictures, he modestly denied it. His unpremeditated debut on the screen took place when Universal editors decided its sweepstakes newsreel needed the shot of a loser as a closing touch. Cameraman Oliver remembered that he held a worthless ticket, volunteered to act the role. It was good enough to call for an Easter encore. Last week, after sizing...
Jeff Dickson is a suave, dark-haired gentleman of 40 who went to France in 1917 with the 17th U. S. Engineers. Because he had been a newsreel cameraman, he was put to work filming cinemas for the military archives. During the St. Mihiel offensive, he perched his camera on a hill near enough to the scene of action to get himself wounded. After the War, Photographer Dickson got himself demobilized in France so he could go to Abyssinia and take pictures of lions. He also photographed war scenes among the Riffs. Then he drifted back to Paris. Armed with...
James E. Abbe (rhymes with tabby) is a professional U. S. cameraman (free lance) whose curious business and nomadic ways call him from one country to another at short notice. His wife is comely onetime Actress Polly Platt. In Paris, eleven years ago, the first of their three children was born. Around the World in Eleven Years is a child's-eye-view of the family's subsequent travels, written, so Parents Abbe aver, entirely by the children; and printed unchanged, except for corrections in spelling. Readers last week were whooping with delight over many a Young Abbe...