Word: cameraman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reenactment. A cameraman arrived at the outpost, and the prisoners were twice taken to the scene of the fight for propaganda films. Once, said Singh, "I was given a handkerchief and asked to wave it as if to give a signal to the men to open fire." The second time, the body of the Chinese soldier was used in the filmed sequence. Between making statements and signing them, the prisoners were taken from their pit into the sunlight, served watermelon, and lectured on "Sino-Indian friendship...
Assignments by Lot. That unavoidable but unpopular concomitant of any press tour, the reporter's pool (one man covering for the group), was settled by lot. The lucky pool men would fly in the presidential plane on a rotating basis, one reporter and one cameraman for each leg of the tour, others to follow the President on the ground wherever all 84 could not go. Hagerty considerately arranged for the press plane to get pool copy quickly: by radio from Eisenhower's plane or, in the event of poor radio reception, handed around, freshly mimeographed aloft...
Hideaway. In Rio de Janeiro, Cameraman Jorge Alves de Lima told cops that someone had robbed him of a lion skin worth about $300, added that it had great sentimental value "because the lion, when alive and still in possession of its skin, ate a very good friend of mine on a hunting excursion...
...while Traveler Khrushchev calmly thumped cantaloupe and tweaked grapefruit, the eager journalistic pack suddenly erupted all over the meat and groceries. One photographer, battling for a superior position, fell into the refrigerator butter case; another mounted a display of luncheon meat; another stood oxford-deep in packaged cheese. A cameraman shorter than his peers leased (for $5) the shoulders of a store clerk and spurred his two-legged steed up and down the aisles, crying: "Faster! Faster...
Take a Chance. Bach came to his eminence-he got nothing more material out of it than $758 a month-by love and toil. Born in Hollywood, the son of a building contractor, he started as a carpenter. Hating it, he wangled a job as a "second cameraman" errand boy at the old Fox movie studios. In 1925, hunting security (he has a wife and four children), Bach tried to peddle himself to seven Los Angeles high schools as a photography teacher. He was coldly turned down everywhere except at Fremont High. "I'll take a chance," the principal...