Word: cameraman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they might all have gone down in a sea of verbiage without the mood of pursuing doom running from scene to scene. For this, the bows may well go to Cameraman Tony Gaudio, whose slanting shadows and subdued photography make the tropic atmosphere more ominous than the leer of any villain...
Gaudio's fine photography represents the kind of perfection that is automatically expected from the skilled, unpublicized, tight little fraternity which grinds Hollywood's cameras. Directors, actors, writers, producers are expected to falter and blunder now & then. But the cameraman's record must be faultless; he must go quietly about his business, supervising the lighting, arranging camera angles, advising the director on effective touches. He must operate his 425-lb. contraption of multi-lensed, cog-wheeled intricacies with as much dexterity as if it were a Leica. With shooting time costing $20 a minute and with...
...often require that successive scenes in the same room be shot weeks apart. The most accurate instruments used to record the intensity of light have a wide margin of error; so at least 25% of the factors involved in reconstructing a similar setting depend on the sensitivity of the cameraman. The experts say you have to "feel...
Four correspondents and a cameraman -weary after many a sleepless night, nerve-racked from continual bombardment -last week boarded an Atlantic Clipper at Lisbon, returned to the U. S. from the wars. They were: the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's Ray Sprigle, whose report on Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black's onetime Ku Klux Klan connections won him a Pulitzer Prize in 1938; Lloyd Allan Lehrbas of Associated Press, one of a lucky handful of newsmen who happened to be in Poland last year when Adolf Hitler's army moved in with them; Cineman Arthur Menken, who filmed...
...three more than Arleen) including tripod, against 425 Ib. for the old camera not counting its bulky steel undercarriage, as comparatively simple as a Brownie, the new camera had its official unveiling for Fox executives last month at a dinner in the studio commissary. Two complete camera crews (cameraman and two assistants) operated the old and new cameras for their bosses while a stop watch timed the performances. At "go" each crew swung its camera into line, slated the film, checked focus, exposed 45 feet of film, stopped, slated the next "take," made another 45-foot shot of the same...