Word: cameramen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moviegoers a rare glimpse of North Viet Nam. Directed and narrated by James Cameron, a left-wing British journalist who last year published a blandly tendentious report about his brief visit to Hanoi and environs, Eyewitness is a loose collection of such random unrevelatory footage as Cameron's cameramen were permitted to expose...
...after he returned from Asia, Lyndon Johnson summoned news photographers to the Cabinet Room of the White House for a picture-taking session. What was the occasion? "I'll give you the caption later," the President told the puzzled cameramen. Minutes afterward-when the stock exchanges had closed for the day on Wall Street-Johnson sent for reporters. They assumed that he was going to brief them on his last-minute campaign swing. Instead, he began reading a prepared statement...
QUESTION: In that case, would one attribute any differences in camera style between Torn Curtain and the earlier films photographed by Robert Burks to you, and not to the difference in cameramen...
...Foreign Relations Chairman J. William Fulbright, one of his most bitter adversaries on the Viet Nam issue, was invited to a White House reception for visiting Austrian businessmen. When Fulbright came up to shake hands, the President beamed warmly, chatted cheerfully with the chairman for a few minutes while cameramen snapped away, then steered Fulbright into his private office for a few more minutes of talk. The White House later leaked broad hints that the two had resolved their pent-up differences-though only a few hours later, Fulbright's committee coldly excised some of the conditions and funds...
Despite all the correspondents who cover the combat, though, South Viet Nam's shooting war has become the particular province of the news photographers and TV cameramen. Says one wordman ungrudgingly: "A lot of guys take chances in covering this dirty, shifting war, but the camera boys take the biggest chances and take them most often." The living (so far) legend of the TV troops is a tough, wiry Vietnamese named Vo Huynh, 35, a native of Hanoi who came south a dozen years ago. He mans a camera for NBC while his brother handles the sound equipment. Since...