Word: cameramen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Then photographers eddied around the black limousine parked on the White House drive in front of the West Wing. The cameramen focused on the license plate initialed JJW 2, squeezed off a few frames, then rushed on in search of more public fragments of the shadowy drama. The elegant car belonged to Washington Lawyer John J. Wilson. And suddenly the whole scene overwhelmed one's comprehension. The President of the U.S. and his principal advisers were conferring with a criminal attorney...
...Little Miss Innocent" was a little more appealing, and in a perverse sort of way, it summed up the Crimson fencing season. First of all, the filmmakers had escaped the Puritan confines that had restricted the efforts of the cameramen in "A Hard Man." And to top it off, the flick had a plot. (Well, sort of a plot.) In a nutshell, it goes like this: Mr. Hip, a rich, chic, handsome man in gold Cadillac convertible, picks up two nubile young girls hitchhiking on the road. They ride with him to the end of his driveway and then depart...
...while he conquered. He attempts to teach it to the ardent young Cleopatra, who's not very interested in him otherwise. In so doing, he loses part of his army, but ultimately saves his neck. Gabriel Pascal produced and directed the film, which is photographed by four top British cameramen in florid Technicolor; Vivien Leigh and Claude Rains ham it up nicely as the title characters...
GETTING away," Richard Nixon said last week, "gives a sense of perspective which is very, very useful." The experience was less than bucolic for the 77 reporters and cameramen who traipsed to Camp David to cover the presidential Cabinet shuffles. Camp David's grounds are off limits to the press, who were herded by Marine guards and concertina wire into a sapling-fenced enclosure called "the duckblind" or farther away in an overcrowded press trailer. After newspapers published pictures similar to this one of reporters shivering under a plastic sheet in a chilly rain to phone in their stories...
...news time approached, star-struck CBS executives in New York, Washington and Los Angeles began clearing their throats and straightening their ties. Many of them had already been pressed into service behind the cameras because of a strike against CBS by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, which represents cameramen, audio and lighting men and other technicians. But now the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists had ordered its members-who include newsmen and the casts of live programs such as soap operas-to honor the IBEW picket lines at CBS broadcast sites. Such stellar AFTRA members as Newsmen...