Word: cameraman
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Standing close to the wall, he complained about the press, which had been griping about onlookers getting in the way. ABC Cameraman Henry Brown had protested that the press area had been "penetrated" by people who were "interfering with our work." Replied a man whom Brown assumed was a Secret Service agent: "We'll try to do something." A.P. Radio Reporter Walter Rodgers pushed his way along the wall, extending his fishpole mike, when he heard the young man complain about the reporters: "They ought to get here on time. They think they can do anything they want...
Amid the noise and confusion of the attempt on President Ronald Reagan's life, ABC Cameraman Hank Brown coolly held his ground, keeping his camera rolling. The moment shots rang out on his right, reporters, Government officials and bystanders instinctively ducked for cover. But Brown stayed on his feet to capture a series of haunting images that by day's end were burned into the national memory: the President waving, then being jackknifed into his limousine by a Secret Service agent; Press Secretary James Brady and a Secret Service agent falling to the pavement wounded. Brown swung...
...just spent $10 billion, finished a week-long countdown, flooded a million gallons of fuel into a hundred-thousand-pound bird, and launched the whole contraption into orbit," a beer-drinking cameraman bellowed in front of the press grandstand...
...hotel coffee shop as easily as in the bush." In the past two weeks, a CBS crew was robbed by guerrillas armed with automatic weapons; an ABC reporter had a gun pointed at his head in downtown San Salvador by a man who then simply drove away; and NBC Cameraman Hermes Munoz was held up by masked men as he left San Vicente. When Munoz protested that he was a newsman, one of the guerrillas muttered, "Newsmen will be the first to die." Indeed, at least five foreign journalists have been among the more than 15,000 killed over...
This rich, energetic, superbly acted film is full of marvelously developed subsidiary characters: an old cameraman who has seen it all; Mateusz's exwife, declining into drunkenness; a veteran moviemaker, prize-laden and softly cynical. All are witnesses to history, shedding light on the way large issues affect little lives. At this time, when the inner contradictions of Polish Communism are once again spread out for the world to see, theirs is testimony that should be heard...