Word: cameraman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tepees & Chateaux. One photographer waited an entire week to shoot a burrowing owl going into a hole and coming out again. Another cameraman was speared by a savage while working along the Amazon. In making a film called Indian Family of Long Ago, E.B.F. experts had to teach the actors, some Sioux from South Dakota, how to put up tepees, pack a travois (a primitive sledge), and shoot bows and arrows. When Producer Milan Herzog made his series on medieval life, nothing would do but to shoot it in real French chateaux that had been especially decorated with priceless furniture...
When the tornado struck across town from his home, NBC Cameraman Maurice ("Moe") Levy, 34, grabbed his 16-mm. hand camera, hopped into his car and headed straight for the distant black column. He met it within the city's Negro district, stopped his car every few feet (leaving the motor running) to get pictures, never let it get more than 200 yds. away. Once he returned to his car to find it jammed with terrified survivors. Their terror grew when they realized, after refusing to get out, that Levy was trying to stay with the twister...
...told that it was more important for him to record what was going on in film. The director of his film company refused to give him a camera and film, but Ferenc broke into the warehouse, commandeered both. From then on, until Nov. 3, he and his cameraman recorded the battle. He took pictures everywhere, in the streets, from the cellars, from speeding vehicles...
...history have attained such widespread notoriety as Councillor Vellucci. His sensational proposals last spring to confiscate University's two liquor licenses, and to create a separate "City of Harvard" within the boundaries of Cambridge received publicity in several papers throughout the country and even attracted a CBS-TV cameraman to City Hall for one of the Council meetings. They also, as one might expect, earned him the reputation of a Harvard-baiter...
...eight swept-wing jets as they snuggled up, four at a time, behind trailing funnel-fitted hoses. Even bigger news was Convair's new B58 Hustler bomber, a plane eight years in development as the nation's first truly supersonic long-range bomber. At Fort Worth, a cameraman for the Star-Telegram snapped a picture of the Hustler as it was rolled out of the hangar for its first ground tests and test flight...