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  Underwater Cameraman
With over 8 years' experience as an underwater cameraman, I take a great pride in shooting high-quality underwater video.
As an underwater cameraman on this expedition I acquired unique DV footage of the great ship.
Besides my regular liveaboard dive trips to Burma, the Similan Islands and Hin Daeng with Santana Diving in Phuket I undertake work as a freelance underwater cameraman, including TV and promotional underwater video work, underwater video surveys, as well as topside video and private commissions for scuba divers.
www.underwater-cameraman.com   (294 words)

  
  The Cameraman (1928 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Cameraman is a 1928 comedy starring Buster Keaton.
The plot has Keaton working for MGM newsreels as a cameraman in order to impress a female office-worker.
It is considered by fans and critics to be Keaton still in top form, and it was added to the National Film Registry in 2005.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Cameraman_(1928_film)   (154 words)

  
 The Pose of the Misfit: Buster Keaton in "The Cameraman" by Youri Boone
This is mirrored in the identity of his eager competitors, icons of dynamism on both levels: cameramen, most notably Harold, and the aforementioned bunch of athletes at the swimming pool.
In a film entitled The Cameraman, it is evident that the cinematic presentation of the film will be seen as thematically significant; as evident as it is to draw attention to physical aptness in a film featuring Buster Keaton.
These elements, as we have seen, were represented in a constant tension between stasis and dynamism: for both elements, stasis is what characterizes the protagonist in the beginning of the film whereas dynamism is what has to be aspired to if the love story is to reach its apex.
www.imageandnarrative.be /graphicnovel/youriboone.htm   (2521 words)

  
 Iraqi cameraman for CBS detained
An Iraqi cameraman carrying credentials for the United States network CBS is being held on suspicion of rebel activity, the US military in Iraq said.
The cameraman suffered minor injuries during a battle in the northern town of Mosul on Tuesday between US soldiers and suspected insurgents, reports say.
The cameraman was detained because he may pose a "threat to coalition forces", according to the military.
www.infowars.com /articles/iraq/iraqi_cbs_cameraman_detained.htm   (141 words)

  
 Cinematographer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In this case, the DP is often credited as a lighting cameraman.
This system means that the director consults the lighting cameraman for lighting and filtration and the operator for framing and lens choices.
In the American system, which is more widely adopted, the rest of the camera department is subordinate to the DP, who, along with the director, has the final word on all decisions related to both lighting and framing.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cameraman   (641 words)

  
 The Assistant Cameraman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The first assistant cameraman is generally responsible for the maintenance of the camera.
The first assistant cameraman also changes lenses, maintains focus during shots, marks the spots where actors will stand and measures the distance between the camera and the subject matter.
The second assistant cameraman fills out camera reports and is often responsible for loading and unloading camera magazines, which contain the film.
tms.ecol.net /movies/whoac.htm   (73 words)

  
 CNN.com - British cameraman killed in Gaza - May. 3, 2003
James Miller, a British cameraman, was killed in a clash between Israelis and Palestinians.
A British cameraman was killed as he covered a clash between Israeli troops and Palestinian gunmen, the Israeli military confirmed Saturday.
Almost two weeks ago, a Palestinian cameraman was killed covering a clash between Israeli forces and armed Palestinians and stone-throwing youths, in Nablus, on the West Bank.
www.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/meast/05/03/mideast.cameraman/index.html   (642 words)

  
 Villainous Company: CBS Cameraman Detained In Iraq   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The cameraman suffered minor injuries Tuesday during a battle between U.S. soldiers and suspected insurgents, and was standing next to an alleged insurgent who was killed during the shootout, the military said.
The military issued a statement at the time saying the cameraman was shot because his equipment was mistaken for a weapon.
Spanish cameraman José Couso, 27, who worked for the Spanish TV station Telecinco, was wounded in the same shooting and died on the operating table.
www.villainouscompany.com /vcblog/archives/2005/04/cbs_cameraman_d.html   (991 words)

  
 CNN.com - CBS stringer arrested in Iraq - Apr 8, 2005
The video cameraman was wounded during a firefight in northeastern Mosul between U.S. troops and insurgents Tuesday.
All had been shot in a manner that suggested the cameraman had prior knowledge of the attacks and had scouted a shooting location in sight of the target.
The U.S. military has said that the cameraman was shot by soldiers from the 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment after it appeared to them he had a weapon.
www.cnn.com /2005/WORLD/meast/04/08/iraq.main/index.html   (532 words)

  
 Navarro's Silent Film Guide - Movie Reviews - The Cameraman
Keaton's character in The Cameraman is a version of the lovable nebbish he always played, but here he's a photographer with a crush on the lovely Sally (Marceline Day), a secretary with a company that produces newsreels.
After the little cameraman jumps in to save her and carries her to the beach, she awakens and imagines it was her date who saved her, and thanks him.
After The Cameraman, Keaton made his final silent movie, the not-bad Spite Marriage (1929), then went into sound films as Jimmy Durante's sidekick in a half-dozen MGM comedies.
www.billyates.com /navarro/reviews/thecameraman.shtml   (914 words)

  
 BCPipers' Photo Album 18 - Cameraman into competition circle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The cameraman then proceeded to wander around inside the circle for about a minute before a judge managed to grab him by the shoulder.
The cameraman did not seem to mind that he has been slowed up by the hooked drones or the small girl that was in his way.
Finally, after a minute of wandering, the cameraman get close enough to the circle edge to be grabbed by a judge.
www.bcpipers.org /photoalb18.htm   (503 words)

  
 Buster Keaton Collection
Both Keaton with "The Cameraman" and The Marx Brothers with "A Night at the Opera" began their MGM bungee jump with one of the greatest films of their careers.
All of this is not to demean "The Cameraman" and "Spite Marriage," which are both fine films ("Spite Marriage" with a few caveats).
The collection includes neat and informative introductions by Robert Osborne for "The Cameraman" and "Spite Marriage"; commentary on "The Cameraman" by Glenn Mitchell; commentary on "Spite Marriage" by John Bengston and Jeffrey Vance; and photomontages on both films.
www.mediascreen.com /b/busterkeatoncollection1.htm   (723 words)

  
 Operating Cameraman Online: Japanese Cameraman System
In the Japanese system, the cameraman's main role is to operate the camera and he is considered the "master of frame adjustment." Consequently the title of camera operator as such is virtually non-existent in this country.
Incidentally when the 2nd assistant is needed to push the dolly and pull focus simultaneously, the chief assistant cameraman would exercise his/her prerogative whether or not to push the dolly or pull focus during a particular shot.
In general the cameraman has his/her say over the lighting director, however there are cases when the producer hires the lighting director first and consequently the lighting director chooses the cameraman.
www.soc.org /opcam/09_fw9697/mg09_seigo.html   (1416 words)

  
 Slant Magazine - Film Review: The Cameraman
When Keaton sacrificed that independence and control by signing a contract with MGM, where production schedules were tighter and less open to the sort of gag-improvisations Keaton was used to indulging in, many observed it as the beginning of his career decline.
Which makes it all the more poignant that his first MGM feature, 1928's The Cameraman, directed not by Keaton himself, but Edward Sedgwick (up to that point, more or less a director-for-hire), is right up there with Sherlock, Jr.
If the film's first half posits that amateurism is the jumping point for both accidental expressionism and aimless experimentalism, then the second half appears to argue for unregulated primitivism.
www.slantmagazine.com /film/film_review.asp?ID=1368   (508 words)

  
 David Drazin - Evanston Review 040804
First, "The Cameraman" (1928) is one of Keaton's more rarely screened feature films, the first he made at MGM, where he essentially had been sold into servitude by his producer/father-in-law Joe Schenck, and where he would soon suffer a precipitous decline in fortunes, his glory years behind him.
Second, though Keaton technically served only as star, he is unofficially credited as a director and writer of "The Cameraman," which is generally considered one of his funniest and most emotionally satisfying films -- as well as a companion piece to his classic commentary on the nature of movie reality, the amazing "Sherlock, Jr." (1924).
"'The Cameraman' is the movie that began his decline," said professor Thomas Simpson, a senior lecturer in Northwestern's department of French and Italian, who will introduce "The Cameraman" tonight as part of the ongoing Professor's Pick series at Block Cinema.
www.kendavies.net /daviddrazin/articles/evanstonrev040804.html   (313 words)

  
 Careers : Cameraman
The Cameraman in the South African Police Service records audiovisual material for the use by the Broadcast Productions section of the South African Police Service.
He/she provides the video material for Pol TV (Police television) programmes He/she manages the camera equipment and other state resources in a responsible way before and after use to ensure the camera equipment are maintained by the technical section to prolong longevity of South African Police Service resources.
The Cameraman in the South African Police Service is also responsible for effective communication between management and members, the South African Police Service as a provider and the public as the client, both in South Africa and internationally.
www.saps.gov.za /careers/career_quest/yellow/cameraman.htm   (179 words)

  
 Box Office Prophets: Wladislaw Starewicz: Animation Pioneer
However, the dragonfly's boyfriend happens to be a cameraman who voyeuristically films the infidelities of Mr Beetle through a hotel room keyhole so that he might later extract his pound of flesh.
After returning home and finding his wife amorously involved with the artist on the couch and then throwing a hypocritical fit, the Beetles head out to the cinema, whereupon the cameraman grasshopper projects the illicit footage of the husband's cheating on the screen, much to the delight of the various bugs in attendance.
Mrs Beetle then chucks her hubby through the screen; the ensuing fight causes the projector to catch fire and the two are then reunited for life, though the ending implies that their wedded "bliss" will continue from behind the bars of a jail cell.
www.boxofficeprophets.com /hyde/pioneer.asp   (1124 words)

  
 Triumph of the Will - tScholars.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
He again asked Riefenstahl, who finally relented (there is still debate over how willing she was) after Hitler guaranteed his personal support and promised to keep other Nazi organizations, specifically the Propaganda Ministry, from meddling with her film.
Riefenstahl and cameraman filming Hitler during the Frauenkirche parade.
(The latter requiring numerous takes so that the cameraman would not be filmed) It also featured the use of telephoto lenses to create a distorted perspective.
www.tscholars.com /encyclopedia/Triumph_of_the_Will   (4299 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | US troops 'crazy' in killing of cameraman
Journalists who were with a Reuters news cameraman shot dead by US troops while filming outside a Baghdad prison yesterday accused the soldiers of behaving in a "crazy" and negligent fashion.
Dana, 43, is the second Reuters cameraman to be killed since the US-led force invaded Iraq.
But colleagues who were with the award-winning cameraman when he was killed told a different story.
www.guardian.co.uk /international/story/0,3604,1021480,00.html   (836 words)

  
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Channel 10 cameraman Majdi al-Arbid was apparently hit by IDF fire while on the job in the town of Beit Hanoun earlier this year.
Following an inquiry into the incident, Judge Advocate General Avichai Mandelblith instructed the Military Police to launch a criminal investigation into the matter.
The cameraman and I both held cameras and had identification marks.”
www.ynetnews.com /articles/0,7340,L-3083672,00.html   (239 words)

  
 The DVD Journal | Quick Reviews: Buster Keaton Collection: TCM Archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
In 1928, when Keaton made The Cameraman as his first MGM title, he couldn't have known that this, one of his biggest hits, would be the final time he'd be allowed to make a film the way he knew how to make them.
In The Cameraman (75 min.) Keaton plays a hapless tintype photographer who hopes to up his station in life — and win the heart of pretty Sally (Marceline Day) — by competing with the big boys as a freelance MGM newsreel cameraman.
The Cameraman arrives remastered with a new score (in DD 2.0 stereo) by former Frank Zappa band member Arthur Barrow.
www.dvdjournal.com /quickreviews/b/busterkeaton_tcm.q.shtml   (1098 words)

  
 DVDLaser: the largest database of DVD reviews on the web
The source material is partially restored, so that on both films, though especially on The Cameraman, fl-and-white footage which looks amazingly crisp and spotless is shuffled together with footage which looks like it has been cranking continuously during the sixty odd years since the comedies were made.
In The Cameraman, the woman is a receptionist at a newsreel studio and so Keaton's character tries to become a newsreel photographer.
The situations in which Keaton, rolling his camera, is oblivious to the pandemonium around him not only evoke his best known comic persona but also comment upon the uninvolved objectivity real news photographers must maintain to do their job properly.
www.dvdlaser.com /search/detail.cfm?ID=14994   (480 words)

  
 DVD review of Buster Keaton Collection, The (TCM Archives) - DVD Town   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
In "The Cameraman," Keaton plays a sidewalk photographer, a tintype picture-taker, who longs to be a big-time newsreel cameraman working for a major movie studio in order to impress the girl he's just fallen in love with.
"The Cameraman" on the first disc and the documentary on the second disc are in two-channel Dolby stereo, mainly because "The Cameraman" is accompanied by a new musical soundtrack and the documentary is also newly made.
Interestingly, both "Spite Marriage" and "The Cameraman" were later remade as vehicles for another MGM star, Red Skelton, "I Dood It" in 1943 and "Watch the Birdie" in 1950, with Keaton acting as an uncredited consultant and gag writer.
www.dvdtown.com /review/busterkeatoncollectionthetcmar/14015/2514   (2220 words)

  
 Palestinian Authority Threatens Cameraman Prevents Broadcast of Palestinians Celebrating Attack on U.S.
An Associated Press cameraman filmed Palestinians at a rally in Nablus celebrating the terror attacks in the United States September 11, 2001.
The cameraman was subsequently summoned to a Palestinian Authority security office and told that the material must not be aired.
The cameraman requested that the material not be aired and, AP caved in to the flmail and refused to release the footage.
www.us-israel.org /jsource/arabs/pathreat.html   (360 words)

  
 GreenCine | product main - Buster Keaton Collection (1928/1929)
THE CAMERAMAN: This is one of the last films from Buster Keaton's classic period, before the coming of sound and interference from MGM spoiled his work and softened his popularity.
Luke's primary rival for Sally's affections is a cameraman for the company, so Luke decides to sign to the newsreel department in hopes of impressing her.
However, his hand with a movie camera is not especially sure at first; he mistakenly double exposes a reel of film that results in battleships sailing down Broadway, while his attempts to get footage of a Tong battle seem more successful until an organ grinder's monkey runs off with his film.
www.greencine.com /webCatalog?id=13181   (735 words)

  
 Silent Era : DVD : The Cameraman (1928) Review
The original camera negative for The Cameraman survived for many years but was lost in an MGM vault fire in the 1960s.
The overall quality of this edition of The Cameraman is generally excellent, with improvements in the source materials over MGM Home Video’s laserdisc and VHS editions from the early 1990s.
The two-minute introduction of The Cameraman by Robert Osborne is inconsequential.
www.silentera.com /DVD/cameramanDVD.html   (915 words)

  
 The Buzz on National Review Online
Key objected to the cameraman’s shooting position, which was on the same site where the protesters have erected crosses listing the names of fallen soldiers in Iraq.
She would not answer my question directly, instead saying, “I think if we all do our fair share, we’ll work to keep everybody out of the way … That’s all we need is to have people stay out of the crosses … I think that’s all being worked out privately.
I think the cameraman and the Iraq veteran was doing his best to honor the fallen will work it out.”
buzz.nationalreview.com /074201.asp   (282 words)

  
 The Cameraman movie posters and memorabilia at MovieGoods
Actor Christopher Walken wore cuff-links made of human molars when he was playing the villain Max Schreck in Batman Returns.
Spared from the vilification of studio politics (not the case with later Keaton films) "The Cameraman" enjoyed both critical and popular success.
Fortuitously poised to grab a photo scoop on a Chinese tong war, he is forced to return empty-handed when an organ-grinder's monkey absconds with his firsthand footage.
www.moviegoods.com /movie_product.asp?master%5Fmovie%5Fid=13692   (318 words)

  
 The YouTube War - TIME
The cameraman tries to coax some action out the unwilling documentary subject, who refuses: "I'm not supposed to talk to the media," he says.
I'm not the media!" The sharp denial reflects a key collateral campaign in the Iraq war: to keep soldiers strictly on message.
In "The War Tapes," one soldier/auteur complains frequently about the risks he and his comrades take to protect the property of the Halliburton subsidiary subcontracted to feed the troops: "Why the f--- am I sitting out here guarding a truck full of cheesecake?" he laments.
www.time.com /time/nation/article/0,8599,1216501,00.html   (1037 words)

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