Word: cameramen
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...wish that they be hanged like cattle." The eight were stripped, and as they shivered in the chilly dawn, their necks were encircled by short, thin string attached to meathooks in the torture chamber in Plötzensee Prison. Each man was then dropped to strangle slowly. Nazi cameramen captured the convulsive spectacle on film, and that night Hitler ran off the movie for the enjoyment of himself and his guests...
...turn to supply equipment and technicians. In a steaming mobile unit parked in the Senate building courtyard, Ed Scherer, a 25-year-old TV director for Baltimore's WMAR-TV, selected the best shots to be fed to the networks. After pedestrian coverage the first morning, the cameramen sharpened, even anticipated Joe McCarthy's points of order. Said one: "When he looks disgusted, we put our camera on him." At one point, McCarthy passed a scribbled note to the TV men: "Could I have time off from cameras for ten seconds to use handkerchief?" It was granted...
...nine weeks Fox cameramen toured Britain, shooting Technicolor background footage of the island's vistas and keeps-Caernarvon, Warwick, Braemar, Eilean Donan and Alnwick (which in the picture serves for Arthur's Camelot). The Scottish village of Dornie, used for a viking stronghold, was mostly rebuilt on the Fox lot for the big siege scene...
From Raisins to Baked Ham. By starting time, they numbered 37 in all-newsmen, photographers, a radio broadcaster (who made tape recordings of birdcalls and water sounds along the way) and newsreel cameramen, as well as bird watchers and nature lovers of every hue and stripe. The Justice, an oldtime Western mountain climber, set a brisk pace. Despite wet brush and the fact that the old canal path was washed out in sections, the motley group seemed to enjoy itself...
...parade of helmeted Korean veterans, smartly stepping bands and lumbering Sherman tanks filed by. When the last vehicle had passed, Magsaysay waved the cops aside and the delirious crowd surged forward to engulf the presidential reviewing stand. The photographers' platform swayed like a ship at sea and two cameramen fell off, a microphone stand was trampled into a pretzel. With his people breathing almost down his neck, the new President took his oath of office. From a U.S. warship in the harbor and a battery of Philippines artillery on the hill, two 21-gun salutes burst forth simultaneously. Then...