Word: cameramen
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...affair between TV and the moviemakers is plainly on again. Simple economics served as shotgun to the merger. Television has knocked out Hollywood's staple product, the inexpensive cops-and-robbers "B" picture. Since 1950, moviemakers have turned to fewer (by 39%) and bigger movies, leaving highly paid cameramen, contract actors and a horde of stagehands in the slack time. Warner's venture was only the latest. Among the others: ¶Columbia Pictures, facing up to the dollars-and-cents facts of its overhead, decided to grind out this year some 390 TV films, e.g., Ford Theater, Father...
...better in quality than they have been for a number of years-but most of the good ones were not made in Hollywood. The economic strain of the early '503 burst at last the giant pod of cinema talent in Southern California. Able, creative people-producers, directors, actors, cameramen-were scattered to the four winds. Some drifted into television, but quite a few went off to the film capitals of Europe, where they stirred new life in the local talent...
Viewers so far have been shaken. During the filming the lead players, the producer and cameramen gave up smoking. But professional cancer fighters, who favor frankness about cancer, but not horror, are worried that the film may do more harm than good, by frightening people away from hospitals...
...Vanishing Prairie. Walt Disney's cameramen catch some intimate glimpses (including the birth of a baby buffalo) of what animal life was like when the WTest was really wild (TIME...
Walt Disney, in the seventh of his one-hour Disneyland shows on ABC, produced a motion picture of a motion picture being made undersea. Cameramen, who stood and floated behind the cameramen who filmed Disney's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea off Nassau and Jamaica, recorded an eye-catching documentary on the difficulties and hazards of making movies below the surface. At one point a huge, uninvited shark swam into the middle of a scene. Cameramen, directors and technicians, wearing light Aqua Lungs and flippers, could swim away, but actors weighted down by 225-lb. costumes could only...