Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/11/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]A few days ago (I'm sure many on the list saw it), while waiting for news about the Robert Blake murder trial, news cameras caught a face-to-face shooting outside the courthouse. It was caught on tape by a number of TV news cameras. What I found intersting was how few cameramen chose to aid the victim instead of "keep'um rolling." Sam S Adam Bridge wrote: > I'll point to the opening of Haskell Wexler's terrific film "Medium Cool" (1969) > in which a news photographer on a motorcycle comes upon a dawn car crash. He > pulls off, photographs the crash, the victim, and then without stopping to > deliver aid or call for help he's on his motorcycle and off to the newsroom to > get the film processed in time for the morning news. The film was shot while the > 1968 Democratic National Convention was being held in Chicago and was filmed > using those real events as a backdrop. > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html