Amanda Emily
fair winds and following seas
The contents of this site was deleted two months ago for various reasons, chief among them being the fact it was under constant attack from hackers to the point it was starting to cause server issues. I’m not paying for hosting that
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My apologies to my minimal audience for the neglect of this blog. In-between sandblasting live trucks onto pilsner glasses due to the upcoming holiday to managing the technical side of the TV News Storyteller’s website, regrettably I just haven’t had time of late to compile old stories to post ‘em Read More →
The plight of the news cameraman
Think the hordes of the unwashed public with their own cameras (in the form of cellphones) getting into the way of your shot at any newsworthy event is something new? This cartoon from 1928 illustrating the plight of the professional news cameraman says otherwise…
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Years before Ansel Adams shot his iconic photos, there was Pathe News’ Ralph Earle who brought motion picture images of the scenic beauty found on public lands to the eyes of the public on a large scale. In the mid-1910s, Pathe had sent Earle and his wife on a 10,000 Read More →
Slow News Day
“Lawn Chair Larry” Walters wasn’t the first man to take flight via balloons. Walters had an accidental predecessor a few decades earlier in the small town of Old Orchard Beach, Maine on September 28, 1937 with a group of bored news photographers who decided to shoot a story on a Read More →
The troubles we’ve seen
Jimmy Pergola, Irving Smith, Ted Rickman and Mervyn Freeman with his San Francisco colleagues covering various incidents of civil unrest on US soil in the 1930s. All suited up in body armor and/or gas masks to protect themselves from both the public and the police. Neither side had no qualms Read More →
Pioneers of Sound
Cameraman Neil Sullivan and soundman Ken Allison of Fox Movietone News in Memphis back in November of 1928. A few weeks later they would make their way down to St. Petersburg, Florida where some of the local residents apparently became pioneers of a long line of people dropping f-bombs into Read More →