Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/03/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Gordon Webster wrote: Kind of interesting following this thread. I taught motion picture photography at the Army Signal Center and School at Fort Monmouth NJ in the mid 60's. Shot thousands of feet of 35mm and 16mm B&W and color film and re-rolled countless 100' spools into cassettes for the Leica M2. Same camera I'm using today. Film and processing was no object, as instructors we were encouraged to shoot as much as we wanted. And we did. I was a motion picture photo student at Ft. Monmouth in 1953. My instructor was a Captain whose arm had been shot off in Korea while he was filming an action. One of his frequent reminders to the class was, "gentlemen, always remember that the reason you have only a side-arm instead of a rifle is that you are supposed to be in front of the troops shooting their advance, not behind them filming their asses." Oliver Bryk