Word: cameraman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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William Randolph ("Young Bill") Hearst Jr. owns an amphibian plane which he allows to do double duty for his father's New York American and New York Evening Journal. Last week he sent it out, carrying a reporter and cameraman, to find a schooner missing in storm-swept Long Island Sound with eight men and two women aboard. The plane spotted the passengers & crew marooned at a lighthouse. Boasted the American: N. Y AMERICAN PLANE FINDS 10 LOST IN BOAT. Shouted the Journal: 10 TELL JOURNAL PLANE RESCUE. Of all other Manhattan papers, only the conscientious Times bothered...
...most highly paid and consistently successful scenarists in Hollywood, was a star reporter in San Francisco before she started writing for the cinema at $15 a week, working up to an Academy prize in 1930 for The Big House. Lee Garmes, noted for his "low lighting," was a cameraman's assistant at 13. He came to notice with The Grand Duchess and the Waiter, later shot Morocco and An American Tragedy. Gordon Wiles left Annapolis in 1925 because of his health, studied art in Pans for two years, joined Fox in 1930 and made the ocean liner in Transatlantic...
...unexpected. Also he has a distinct advantage of entreé. A hostile subject who has thawed to a reporter's interview may let him snap a picture, although he would freeze again at sight of a photographer's tripod and plate-box. In many cases the cameraman, boldly marked with the badge of his trade, is barred at gates where the newsman, with camera concealed, may saunter in. As Jack Price says: "Nowadays a reporter can still carry his cane and have a camera tucked in his pocket." The adventures of news photographers can be fully as thrilling...
...Photographer Eckenberg get his scoop? The Times said he simply got there first from Columbus Circle. But every other cameraman on the job told his editor another story: that lucky Eckenberg was late on his way to the Circle, was passing the store just as the shooting occurred...
...when German submarines were sinking U. S. oil tankers, oil was precious. One of the jobs of the Engineering Commission of Submarine Defense was to make oil go further. Its chairman, Lindon Wallace Bates, with the backing of the late Cameraman George Eastman, finally stabilized a 50% mixture of coal dust in oil. The U. S. S. Gem tested it successfully. After the War, Inventor Bates learned that two Germans had invented a similar fuel in 1914. He bought up their patents, developed his fuel still further...