Word: cameraman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first novel, The Sound of the Trumpet, is a fictionalized report of his G.I. experience between D-day and the end of the war. It focuses on Danforth Granham, a G.I. cameraman in a documentary film unit, later an infantry photographer, as he shoots his way across France and into Germany, his shutter open to combat and corpses, his arms briefly closed around the Red Cross girl of his dreams. The result of all this picture-taking is a series of dramatically unrelated clichés which add up to a minor war document disguised as a novel. What Leicester...
...captivating air which Director Zinnemann calls "behaving rather than acting," an artless-seeming form of art that he followed in such notable films as The Search, The Men, The Member of the Wedding. At 46 one of Hollywood's top directors, Vienna-born Fred Zinnemann, a former cameraman, uses the camera with easy familiarity, and with a cool simplicity that seems astonished by nothing but shows compassion for everything. Honolulu's Schofield Barracks (where much of the picture was actually filmed) becomes a large, stark frame for some memorable scenes, such as the rite of taps for Private...
...station after winning the U.S. clay courts tennis title in River Forest, Ill., photographers asked her to kiss her 21-year-old seagoing boy friend, Petty Officer Norman Brinker. Little Mo politely refused, gave him a warm hug and a smile instead. But things were different at home. A cameraman followed her out to the stable, snapped her in a reunion with Colonel Merryboy, a seven-year-old roan presented to her last year by admiring citizens of San Diego...
Roberto Rossellini, driving a 2,000 cc Ferrari ; he coasted slowly down the incline so that his personal cameraman could take pictures of his take-off (he dropped out of the race in Rome, the halfway point...
...again, Cook read his line: "You're a no-good, lying Yankee-and a sonofabitch too!" Stevens got his take, and the extra epithet was merely cut out of the sound track later. At other imes, Stevens is willing to sacrifice realism for graceful movement. As an ex-cameraman, he knows that a man getting off a horse looks better than a man mounting one; thus, he has been known to shoot his actor dismounting and then reverse the motion of the film...