Word: cameraman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there wi' yer bluidy magic lantern," thundered Scotland's late golfing great, Andra Kirkaldy, when a cameraman dared set foot on the sacred Old Course at St. Andrews at the turn of the century. Had Kirkaldy been around St. Andrews last week, he probably would have heaved his clubs into the North Sea. Heavy tractors trundled television cameras, cables and lights all over the course. Cameramen swarmed over roughs and fairways, technicians and officials thronged the greens, and close to 5,000 Scots followed the proceedings with alternating amusement and dismay. For an 18-hole golf match between...
...underwear. When, in another film called L'Exécution, a nude woman ambled across the screen, RTF's defenders pointed out that she had kept her back to the camera. Some months ago, an irate citizen claimed his marriage had been broken up because an RTF cameraman had panned past him at a prize fight, catching him snuggling with his mistress at ringside. When he returned home at midnight, his wife struck him with a lamp. But while all Paris sympathized with him, the aggrieved husband failed to collect damages...
...city provided the sets, from Orly airport to the Champs-Elysées, and, since life itself is full of jerky movements, Godard ordered his cameraman to shoot from the shoulder and forget the tripod...
...also shoved the cameraman around in a wheelchair and packed him into a post man's mail cart (with peepholes drilled in the sides) to follow the actors as they wandered the streets...
Calm, a little baggard, but "glad to have it over," the Government concentrator smiled broadly for photographers and a TV cameraman as he quickly ate a bowl of soup, a glass of milk, and a few cookies. Doctors have advised him to eat liquids for a while, to give his body a chance to get used to digesting food...