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...most important credit of all, for "Chief Technician." The man's name is Willis O'Brien, the first great artist of stop-frame animation. For special effects fans, he's Mickey Mantle, Michael Jordan and the Beatles all wrapped up in one bespectacled, balding, paunchy little guy. His innovations affected an entire industry and created a whole genre. He's the one who made the monkey move, the one who made "King Kong...
...while the fact that this technician didn't report that he thought the Ehime Maru was nearby is certainly significant, it wasn't the fatal error that caused the collision...
...Where is the defense lawyer's line of questioning going? Is he going to try to pin the collision on the Greeneville's fire control technician...
...even if the fire control technician had, for some reason, failed to do his job, this accident wouldn't have happened...
...Waller: This was not due to one person's mistake. The fire control technician mans what's called the "contact evaluation plot" - a vertical sheet of paper in the control room that he marks up with different colored pencils to keep track of the locations of other ships and submarines. A contact evaluation plot is often just used as an historical record so crews can keep track of where things are - it's one of maybe a dozen tracking devices they...