Word: cameraman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White House cameramen, Press Secretary Steve Early announced that in future no candid camera pictures of the President would be permitted. Reason: at the opening of the baseball season the President had to take great pains not to let a cameraman catch him popping peanuts into his mouth, was caught nonetheless and for several days the White House was besieged with letters saying that it was not dignified for the President to eat peanuts...
...last few years, professional prizefight promoters & managers as well as the public have taken a lively interest in the Golden Gloves. Light-heavyweight Champion Bob Olin, cousin of a News cameraman, got his start as a Golden Glover in 1928. So did Lightweight Champion Barney Ross, in 1929. Currently, most notable Golden Gloves alumnus is Negro Heavyweight Joe Louis of Detroit who won the Golden Gloves championship last year after knocking out 43 of his 54 amateur opponents. Since turning professional, Heavyweight Louis has had 17 fights, won 13 by knockouts, four by decision without losing a round. Last week...
...also want to be among the first to congratulate TIME and Mr. MCAVOY, TIME for sponsoring the cameraman and Mr. McAvoy for his astuteness in scoring a beat over his competitors...
Another major triumph for TIME, with due respects to Cameraman Thomas D. McAvoy. The most authentic character study of Franklin Delano Roosevelt ever to be published...
...Cameraman McAvoy used a Leica camera with a Summar f2 lens, worked with the lens wide open at one-eighth second speed. His film was Du Pont Superior panchromatic, hypersensitized to half again its rated speed by exposing it to fumes of the strongest ammonia obtainable in a closed box for four minutes. Caution to novices: Film so treated should be used within eight hours. After that period it will not only lose its extra sensitivity, but may deteriorate below its original condition...