Word: cameraman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...picture is equally undistinguished from a technical standpoint. Shot in the wonderfully-colored southwestern badlands without benefit of Technicolor, "Four Faces West" is remarkable for the monotonous recurrence of the same scenery. Either they ran out of gas or the cameraman had gout, but the entire script, chases and all, could have been shot within a 25-foot circle. And the title,--ah, the title. Just what manner of animal has four faces all of which are turned westward is a nifty little mystery that can occupy your mind for at least five seconds. It could be the hero...
Died. Gregg Toland, 44, top Hollywood cameraman (The Long Voyage Home The Best Years of Our Lives) famed for his combination of creative imagination and technical skill; of coronary thrombosis; in Los Angeles. Toland introduced revolutionary innovations which contributed to the critical success oi such movies as Citizen Kane and the Oscar-winning Wuthering Heights, just before he died was concentrating on the ultimate focus" lens (which makes both near and far objects equally distinct...
...Long." The Potsdamer Platz was the vortex of battle. One morning a Soviet jeep with five soldiers aboard shot out from the Russian side of the square, raced across it, darted ten yards up the Potsdamerstrasse in the British sector. Two soldiers jumped out; one grabbed a U.S. newsreel cameraman, but the latter wrenched free and escaped. The other Russian chased a German photographer several yards farther up the street. He seemed ready to level his rifle and fire. A British major standing nearby, trim in his Black Watch uniform, put his hand on his pistol holster. The pursuing Russian...
Merle Oberon, who used to be Lady (Alexander) Korda, announced that after three years she and second husband Lucien Ballard were all washed up. He was her cameraman...
...designers and cameraman show an unusually vivid sense of period, place, mood, and the immediate, living moment. As a result, some of the picture seems to be happening for the first time, whereas the run of movies are mere illustrations of what happened in a script. But in spite of all the history that leaks in around the edges, this is essentially a routine western, easy enough to take and just as easy to let alone...