Word: cameraman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Onetime newsreel cameraman-Larry O'Reilly, first U.S. studio photographer to cover the Highway, brought home and boiled down some 30,000 ft. of scoop. His honest excitement both on location and in the cutting room give the film its crisp, uncommon energy. Most notable is O'Reilly's success in depicting two essential opposites simultaneously: 1) the obstinate, difficult bucking of tremendous obstacles (mud, wilderness, green crews who had to be trained on the spot); 2) continuous, violent, swift movement northwards (with the camera leaping from planes to trucks to trains to boats to bulldozers...
Missing in Action. Air Forces Captain Jefferson Davis ("Jeff") Dickson Jr., 47, Europe's No. 1 prewar sports promoter; in air action over Germany. Mississippi farm boy Dickson went to France in 1917 as a U.S. Army cameraman, after the war bought a Paris boxing arena, in 1931 built Paris' Madison Square Garden-inspired Palais des Sports...
Married. Cinemactress Linda (Monette Eloyse) Darnell, 19; and Sergeant J. Peverell Marley, 42, peacetime ace cameraman; she for the first time, he for the second; in Las Vegas...
...Washington's National Press Club last week Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer previewed Fala, the cameraman's record of a day in the life of the most-photographed U.S. dog. A voice on the sound track interprets Fala's thoughts as he romps from the President's bedroom to the White House lawn. The one absolute rule in Fala's life: only the Master may feed...
...rendezvous. The New York Herald Tribune's William W. White shoved off without explanation, leaving a large, tweedy wardrobe in the apartment of bewildered friends. Chicago Daily Newsman William Stoneman, just returned to London from a long vacation, wired his boss abruptly: "Taking long vacation." After A.P. Cameraman Harrison B. Roberts had departed, his boss got worried, called Army headquarters. The best the Army could say was: "Patience...