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Cameramen are complex and multiform, and entail a very considerable moral and economic responsibility. Hence a certain conservatism on the part of Cameramen is not only laudable, but is expected. However, when new methods have been demonstrated and proven it is their duty to the industry to be sufficiently skillful and adaptable to meet changing conditions with an informed and receptive mind. The men who are capable of this will, no doubt, long remain as representative members of their craft; and during the years we have all of us seen too often the regrettable fate of those who have been either unable or unwilling to keep abreast of the industry's ever-changing technical conditions.
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To those of us engaged in the technical phases of the industry, then, the strides of science are more than ordinarily real, for they have an intimate, dollarsand-cents bearing on our lives and work. Even a brief review of the history of the industry will confirm this fact. It will readily be agreed that each step forward in box-office popularity was brought about primarily by the creation of some new technique, either in the purely dramatic phases of writing or direction, or in the technical phases through the development of new materials, equipment or methods. But before any of these innovations could bring about its advancement in the quality and popularity of films, it had to be applied — put to practical use by practical film craftsmen. And the men who have in their respective fields withstood these sometimes tremendous changes have been those possessed of sufficient courage to analyze and embrace every worth-while means offered them to improve their production. Now and always, the progress of the industry as a whole is measured by the progressiveness of the individuals who form it.
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