Amanda Emily
Charles Kuralt’s 1975 RTNDA Speech
“Here I cite the gospel according to Sevareid, who has been heard to murmur, “One good word is worth a thousand pictures.” Every good anchorman is a good writer, someone who can express himself with clarity and precision and richness of language…Good writing elevates people. Bad writing depresses people.” Charles Kuralt RTNDA Convention Speech September […]
Read More →“Roderick Giles, Noise Ketcher”
Rick Portier isn’t the only photog to have written fiction about the news photography business. Many decades ago, Fred “Red” Felbinger, a newsreel cameraman for Paramount News, wrote a little story about a hapless soundman and his misadventures with both women and cameramen called “Roderick Giles, Noise Ketcher.” Click here to read Red Felbinger’s short […]
Read More →A sassiety photog bites back
Newsreel and still photographers generally got along quite well out in the field – especially since many newsreelers in the early days started out as still photogs. However, there was the occasional print reporter who liked to stir up trouble with the newsreelers… On July 5, 1931, an article was published in the Chicago Tribune […]
Read More →North to Alaska and assignement desk editors
One surviving story that William Hudson of Pathe News shot is footage of Sir Hubert Wilkins 1926 flights into the Arctic. Hudson ended up covering the story since Pathe assignment editors in New York wasn’t too thrilled with Wilkins’ choice of a freelance cameraman to go with and sent the Seattle-based Hudson along with Wilkins […]
Read More →North to Alaska and assignement desk editors
One surviving story that William Hudson of Pathe News shot is footage of Sir Hubert Wilkins 1926 flights into the Arctic. Hudson ended up covering the story since Pathe assignment editors in New York wasn’t too thrilled with Wilkins’ choice of a freelance cameraman to go with and sent the Seattle-based Hudson along with Wilkins […]
Read More →Forty years of knowledge summed up…
Norman Alley, after forty years behind a camera, describing his philosophy when it comes to news photography in a 1956 interview: “While he has photographed some of the most dramatic pictures of events of the twentieth century, Alley likes to think of himself as a reporter who uses a camera instead of a pencil. He […]
Read More →Creeping Peeping Photogs
LiveU’s are not a new idea. Starting in the 1950s, NBC and CBS respectively experimented with “portable” minicams that could transmit live video wirelessly instead of running cables across the floors in busy venues. The example on the left is a version of RCA’s “Walkie-Lookie” that the company introduced for NBC’s use at the 1964 […]
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