Even if I could scan it and get away with it, there would be no point…95% of the content within these pages is stills-related with a few token mentions of TV even though the president at the time this magazine was published was a TV OMB (Really! I’m not kidding).

Which in the grand scheme of things is not surprising.

And no its not an evil plot to marginalize TV shooters in favor of stills. Rather its history and the actions of your ancestors casting a very long shadow.

One has to remember in 1946, there was no TV as we know it. Instead there were newsreel photogs who already had an established professional association in the form of their respective IATSE locals. They had their own magazine they wrote for as well as the occasional conventions and social functions. In fact at one point, a couple of them with the newsreel local in Los Angeles were experimenting with a radio show to connect with their colleagues nation-wide that was similar to the function the b-roll.net forum (and Facebook) provide today.

Joe Costa’s new association was merely ancillary to the IATSE newsreel locals as was the other trade association many newsreelers were mentioned as to being members of – Sigma Delta Chi (SPJ). In other-words, there was no point then in newsreelers moving in and carving out a major identity within the NPPA and duplicating what they already had elsewhere while on the other hand, the NPPA finally provided some sort of unified identity for the still news shooters.