Word: cameraman
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...darkness and confusion, policemen used their nightsticks with great zeal, clubbing and injuring about 60 people. Seventeen of them were newsmen--there trying to cover it--including a CBS cameraman . . . an NBC cameraman and NBC News reporter John Evans...
...invaluable documentation of the transitional period when people just went out and made pictures, before restrictions boosted costs and took all the fun out of everything. At least five interviews mention the ease with which insert close-ups and re-takes could be made by anyone--an assistant cameraman or even a star--and lament the red tape existing now which makes this informal kind of moviemaking legally and financially prohibitive...
...freedom they afforded themselves and others, these artists reveal a sublimely naive attitude toward their business, if not their craft. They are often unwilling to acknowledge the development of American film into a major mass-produced consumer product thriving on standardization. They know they were great: that their best cameraman could light like Rembrandt and did, that their designers recreated detail with unsurpassed fidelity, most of all that the degree of collaborative improvisation they enjoyed produced high art and certainly America's greatest screen comedy. The joy with which they took chances, the willingness to sacrifice themselves, the interest...
...into the Beatles' lives, so we could laugh with them at the absurdities of the strange world they inhabited. The romping in Beach Party was so alien to anything approaching our own teen-age lives that we could sit back and laugh at the ludicrousness of it all. Director-cameraman Barry Feinstein of What You Eat tries the Lester approach--he wants to make us a part of the romp--and fails...
...mimeographed." DeSalvo himself becomes a deadpan comic--as deadpan as only Curtis can be. Posing as a plumber, he tells a victim that "you're on my list," to gain entrance into her apartment. And then, after his first on-screen assault begins, one can almost hear the cameraman calculating, "and ... now, di ... solve." Which he does, to the deafening beat of drums...