It’s all the same, only the stations changeEveryday, I sling the same old wayAnother place, where the stories are so dullI go live all night, drives me out of my skullI’m a PHO-tog, in a minivan I driveI’m wanting (w-a-n-ting) to get out of my liveWant…

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Sixty-eight years ago today, the invasion of Normandy began…and of course Robert Capa is being lionized again. He wasn’t the only photog on those beaches that bloody morning so many years ago. In addition to the Navy and Army Signal Corps cameramen, there were newsreel photographers present too. Frank “Taxi” Purnell, Neil Sullivan, John “Bocky” […]

After much deliberation (and a rather intense spitball fight), the governing council of The Lenslinger Institute has decided to go ahead with its Class Action Lawsuit against the makers of Groundhog Day. That’s right, we’re going after one Harold Allen…

After much deliberation (and a rather intense spitball fight), the governing council of The Lenslinger Institute has decided to go ahead with its Class Action Lawsuit against the makers of Groundhog Day. That’s right, we’re going after one Harold Allen…

Hearst newsreel photogs Ariel Varges (on phone) and U. K. Whipple (fiddling with Eyemo camera) in the ready room of the News of the Day newsreel offices in NYC.