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“The Trojan Horse” of TV News
Well since Turd has written a screed about consultants, I have to bring this old post out of the archives. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hy8fMf082HA Remember this clip going around about two years ago about Magid and WFMY? Well to add to the horrors of it, in my files I have a copy of a state of broadcast journalism […]
Read More →LA Crew Gets Up Close And Personal for the NFL
If you’re shooting game action, you need to be as close to the action as possible. Tough to do that if you’re all the way on the sideline of an NFL game. But a lot easier if you’ve got a 40X zoom lens! Go To Team’s Skip Clark has been shooting game action this NFL […]
Read More →Backdrop Not Included
When young Stephen Clapper left El Ocho for his beloved Texas, we just knew he would do well. But from the looks of it, he’s rippin’ the lid off the joint! Okay, so that was lame and not the least bit funny. But neither is Mother Nature when she decide…
Read More →Backdrop Not Included
When young Stephen Clapper left El Ocho for his beloved Texas, we just knew he would do well. But from the looks of it, he’s rippin’ the lid off the joint! Okay, so that was lame and not the least bit funny. But neither is Mother Nature when she decide…
Read More →“River over my door!”
Fred “Red” Felbinger of Paramount News writes about his experience of covering the Ohio River flood of 1937 with only bad moonshine to drink. The photog Felbinger described who fell into the river and had to be rescued was Emile Montemurro of Fox Movietone. I have not figured out who the other cameraman Felbinger was […]
Read More →Tommy Proffitt
Thomas Mavin “Tommy” Proffitt of Universal Newsreel covering the 1936 St. Patrick’s Day flood in western Pennsylvania. Little can be found about Proffitt. He was a staff newsreel cameraman based out of Pittsburgh for Universal Newsreel as well as being rumored according to his obituary of being the anonymous Universal newsreel cameraman assigned to the […]
Read More →Reeling ‘em in…
Talk about time travel. Ten years ago I hung it up (or so I thought) and moved from lugging a camera and all that entails to running a zoo…oops, I mean teaching. No more violent winters or simmering summers…wading hip deep in flood waters…chasing crafty politicians. I was set. Complete climate control and lots of […]