Word: cameraman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bimonthly, Peek-A Look at Life. In Peek Publisher Cotton, now eastern representative of Illinois' Kable Bros. Co., printers, does a picture Ballyhoo of LIFE in "Peek Along America's News Front." Sample caption: "Larry (Tarzan) Crabbe holds Betty Grable up on the Paramount lot so the cameraman can see what made Tarzan wild." Other features: "Peek-uliar Fishing," "Peek at a (Animal) Party," "Peeking at Pictures" which features a "distortograph" of Stuart Erwin. Peek's "advertising" pages burlesque Tanka Coffee and Giraffe cigarets which "never get off your nerves...
...Liner President Harding docked in New York, city editors were under the impression that the only conceivably newsworthy figures on board were the members of a Chechoslovakian Trade-Treaty Commission. Consequently, there were on hand only the run-of-the-mill ship-news reporters, a Fox Movietone Newsreel cameraman, and a Wide World photographer named Kenneth Lucas, assigned to pick up a package and get a shot of the Czechs. Photographer Lucas was on the deck trying to find the Commission when he spied a familiar figure rushing down the third-class gangplank. Recognizing Mrs. Lindbergh, he pursued her onto...
Loud-shirted John Jay Price, long chief cameraman for the extinct New York World, since 1927 operator of his own news picture service in Manhattan, is now rated by Publisher Roy Wilson Howard as "one of the country's outstanding news photog-raphers." Two years ago, however, Jack Price angered clannish press photographers by writing in Editor & Publisher: "Photography is no longer the specialized profession, requiring many years to master. Any reporter can make a really good picture within a short time if he will give a little care and attention to a camera...
...reporters can handle cameras, photographers can manage typewriters, published his second book,* dedicated to the instruction of the "lads of the country whose goal is the camera staff of a newspaper." Fellow photographers could temper their hostility by reading Jack Price's ecstatic picture of a news cameraman...
...Horovitz was able to take shots from within four feet of the academic procession as it came down the steps of Widener, and got within 20 feet of the main platform, so his pictures are much superior to the black and white ones taken by the official University cameraman, who was stationed in a window in Thayer Hall, over 90 feet from the speakers...