Word: cameraman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...diverse often-abstract preoccupations of their auteurs. Both Lady Jane and Stranger are as much about their creators as their subjects. They prove if nothing else, that the films of people whose cameras are too small for anyone but themselves to run intimately mirror the force of that director-cameraman-cutter...
...short of greatness, selling short its colorful background, despite the efforts of its talented creators (add to the list a fine short story writer, John Collier, whose contribution to the script equalled that of Huston and Agee, and photographer Jack Cardiff, then Carol Reed's right-hand man and cameraman on Hitchcock's magnificent Under Capricorn...
...Since the Tet offensive began, 14 correspondents and crewmen from the U.S. networks have been injured. Last week two ABC men, Bill Brannigan and Jim Deckard, were injured in the bombardment of Khe Sanh.* As a result, many members of TV's standard three-man teams (correspondent, cameraman and sound man) have begged off from hazardous assignments, and the networks are having trouble reporting all the battles. CBS Tokyo Bureau Chief Igor Oganesoff, who was frequently shuttled into Viet Nam for fill-in duty, has refused further combat assignments, ABC's Don North, a veteran of 18 months...
Rise Up & Zoom In. Of the three-man teams, the cameraman is in most constant danger. Says one of the best of them, NBC's Vo Huynh, a refugee from Haiphong who has covered just about every major engagement since 1960, "During a firefight, you can't lie down and shoot. You have to sit up every so often for at least ten seconds." And the cameraman, unlike his colleagues, finds the G.I. helmet too cumbersome when he rises up and zooms...
...credit or no, U.S. or native Vietnamese, cameraman or correspondent, some of the best of the TV crewmen are not bugging out. "It's a good story," explains NBC's Vo Huynh, "something I can't miss. So I've got to be here." Agrees Garrick Utley, NBC correspondent since 1963: "You learn in two weeks or even two days out here what takes two years anywhere else." CBS Cameraman Smith insists that he wants "to go back as soon as I can -this month if the doctors will...