A vintage ad featuring photographers Joe Rucker and Willard Van der Veer dating from 1930 on a Paramount News story that ended up making them the only news photographers to ever win an Academy Award for cinematography.

In addition to the aforementioned Oscar, a little more than twenty years later as a NBC News photographer, Rucker would also make history in another way that still has repercussions today. Rucker’s battle with the California State Legislature in the early 1950s forced them to change the rules in 1953 allowing access for television crews to the capitol building in Sacramento while the legislature was in session.