Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/03/23

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Subject: [Leica] Military Photographers
From: "Oliver Bryk" <oliverbryk@home.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 12:15:40 -0800

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