Amanda Emily
WNCT’s 1950s-era Brick
WNCT Cine-Kodak Special dating from the 1950s. Weighing in at 10 pounds, lets just say its a bit awkward to handhold compared to the lighter, more commonly used 16mm camera in silent news gathering service – the B&H Filmo 70 DR.
Read More →The Mystery of Box “A”
Anyone out there recognize what this box was originally intended for? Two ideas that have been tossed out on Facebook so far is hold either wireless mikes or a sungun, barn doors and dichroic filters. The box is labeled with the NBC Miami bureau Kennedy Parkway address on the side, Read More →
The Eyes of the 20th Century
Nearly two dozen Pathe News photographers gathered outside their headquarters at 35 West 45th Street, New York for a group photograph in the summer of 1927. In the decades ahead, they will bear witness to the trials and triumphs of the 20th century from the deaths of colleagues (including two Read More →
A newsreel photog speaks about TV
“Frankly, I don’t believe television has yet found the ultimate way to handle visual news. One reason is that the accent has been on the personalities, and therefore everything is subservient to the personality rather than to the cutting of a good continuity story. True, there have been efforts to Read More →
Tragedy in Jet City
Such a terrible day yesterday in my home market of Seattle. KOMO’s helicopter crashed upon takeoff from their rooftop helipad and along with it took the lives of photojournalist Bill Strothman and pilot Gary Pfitzner. The news business is a tight community, like it always has been from the earliest Read More →
Joe’s Last Battle
For my California readers who also like dull boring history. But first a short background on Joe Rucker. Rucker was one of the earliest staff news photographers in the US, having started a century ago back in 1914 with Universal. From there he shot for Pathe and Paramount, covering the Read More →
Wires will be wires….
A short tale of a smartaleck and his chief from Harry Birch’s chronicles of the activities of the Chicago news crews. It seems that in the building of a short wave radio receiver, Charles Ford needed some special wire to complete the job. He sent Jack Barnett out in the Read More →