Cameramen are proverbially the hardest workers among screen craftsmen. They are the first ones to arrive on the studio set in the morning and the last to leave at night The cameramen are the fellows who cope with ponderous camera set-ups, the rainstorms of directors and the occasional indispositions of the They don't even get a regulation-length lunch hour.
It is not uncommon for a camera man, after working as much as twelve hours on a difficult assignment, to spend the rest of the night doing retakes on his last picture because of the last-minute inspirations of the front office.
That the cameraman is one of the more important collaborators in the highly collaborative art of film production is readily, attested to by his ce-workers. One may never have heard of Karl Freund, Bill Daniels or Tony Gaucho, but they are names that frequently command more re pect with directors and producers than those of top-flight star:
Innumerable beautiful satellitics of the screen insist upon being photographed only by cameramen of their Own selection and often go out of their way to ingratiate themselves with the cinematographer, knowing only too well that the point of view particularly where the camera is concerned, is all-important.
A more valuable distinction than that extended to the cameramen by high-salaried clothes horses in quest of pictorial symmetry has been conferred by the director. Most topnotch directors prefer to work hand in hind with a cameraman of their own choice. Lee Garmes, for ance, was responsible for mera work on such Hecht-Mai Arthur efforts as "Crime Without Passion," "Once in a Blue Moon and Verandah Cafe During the summer months the Gaiety Night Club will not be forced to resort to artificial means of cooling but will have available its cool. conifortable and specious verandah, immediately adjoining the ballroom proper. Plans for the formal opening of the verandah will shortly be announced.
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