Word: krainukov
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Dates: during 1937-1937
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Though bloody, the coverage of the Chinese war by U. S. newsmen and photographers has been exceptionally good. Hearst News of the Day's H. S. Wong; Universal's George Krainukov, MARCH OF TIME's Harrison Forman's bombing pictures of Shanghai were extraordinary, as were the reels taken by Arthur Menken of the announced bombing of Nanking two months ago. Last week reckless Cameraman Menken stayed behind in Nanking to film the Japanese occupation. His films were seized and then returned by Japanese officers. A. T. ("Arch") Steele of the Chicago Daily News filed...
...aviator, explorer and author just down from Tibet, was sitting inside the Cathay when the terrifying explosion took place. The Hearst News of the Day's, Shanghai man, a daredevil called "Newsreel" Wong, was behind the counter of his camera shop, two blocks away. Universal's, George Krainukov, who had just had his camera shot out of his hand in the Chinese evacuation of Peiping, was also almost within hailing distance of the tragedy. As a consequence, the films these three got of the Cathay-Palace Hotel tragedy-most horrifying of last week's collection-have...
Judged by the progressive destruction of a Lincoln Zephyr which, rammed head on into the curb, burns throughout Forman's, Wong's and Krainukov's films, Wong was the first man on the scene. (Presumably Forman lost time by having to rush upstairs from the Cathay bar to get his machine.) But, according to the best guesses of U. S. newsreel people, Wong must have been turned back by the police after making his first shots, for it is Krainukov whose camera turns in the most gruesomely inclusive report of the bombing...
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