American cinematographer (Jan-Dec 1963)

ized transmitter below. The entire unit can be concealed under a necktie or blouse. The signal is transmitted by two cable-type antennas looped around the body of the actor or narrator, in¬ side their clothing. The signal is picked up by a receiver plugged into a power source up to 100 yards from the micro¬ phone. The receiver amplifies the signal and feeds it into the high-impedence channel of the mixer. This equipment is especially valuable and is widely used by APCS camera crews when shooting sync sound on a flight line or parade ground where the narrator must be free to move around. Like the commanders of most APCS units, Capt. Jung is intensely proud of his camera crews and believes them to be the best in the Air Force. A former combat cameraman of the First Motion Picture Unit at Hal Roach studios during World War II, he had a spell of civilian activity as a marine cameraman and specialized in under¬ water photography at Catalina Island. Re-entering government service in 1950, he was assigned to him the Eniwetok atomic bomb tests along with ASC members Gil Warrenton and Har¬ ry Perry. A member of IATSE Local 665, he took time off while stationed in Hawaii to work on such pictures as simplest forms. Then, as he pointed out, the human drama becomes more important. Michael Neyman, who is spokesman for the students and was camera oper¬ ator on the picture, said that Zinnemann really made the students hustle. “The moment a shot was finished,” Neyman said, “I had to hand the view¬ finder to the director and follow after him. As he and the cameraman dis¬ cussed the next shot I had to antici¬ pate the approximate camera position and lens that he wanted and have the assistant set everything up. We had to be ready when the director was. This sort of thing is not taught in schools.” One of the problems encountered in plotting the early part of the story was how to get the salesman out and away from his car, thus simplifying the action of the lunatic shooting a pistol at him. The simplest expedient, it seemed, was to have a tire suddenly go flat. To get around the problem of staging and photographing an actual start. “Hawaiian Adventure,” “The Revolt of Mamie Stover,” and “The Sea Chase.” On the latter he renewed acquaintances with another former combat camera¬ man, Lt. Col. William Clothier now a Hollywood cinematographer. Recently they met again in Tucson where Clothier was photographing the John Wayne him, “McClintock” and Jung was shooting a Titan II missile installa¬ tion. In 1958 he took the first combat motion picture group onto the offshore islands of Quemoy and Matsu while these islands were under Red Chinese hre. He was awarded the “Order of the Flying Horse” from the Chinese Nationalist government for his photo¬ graphic activities in this campaign. Capt. Jung’s right-hand man at De¬ tachment 2 of the 1352nd Photo Group is Lt. Gary Nugent who joined APCS after his graduation from Michigan State University under the ROTC pro¬ gram. A cinema major with consider¬ able civilian experience in motion pic¬ ture and television production, he is typical of the imaginative, highly trained technician sought by APCS as career officers. Under Air Force auspices he will shortly begin work on his Master’s degree in Cinema at the LTniversity of Southern California. ° tire blowout, the effect of the blowout was photographed from inside the salesman’s car: the car suddenly swerves (as the blowout is heard on the sound track ) and Widmark is seen fighting the wheel and applying the brakes in order to keep the car under control. The next shot shows the car barrelling down the highway on a pre¬ flattened tire, then coming to a stop with the blown tire and wheel filling the screen. As Widmark starts to change the tire, the wheel slips from his grasp and rolls down an embankment. As he sets out to retrieve it the lunatic charac¬ ter, gun in hand, suddenly appears out of nowhere and begins shooting at Widmark, who takes refuge behind the prop boulder. Thus, the story gets off to an action-packed start. From here the story moves on to show salesman Widmark, pictured as a weak character, cringing behind the boulder and hoping for someone to come to his aid. Suddenly, and to his horror, he sees two children walking Res ipse loquitur THE PROS SHOW THE STUDENTS HOW Continued from Page 93 AMERICAN CINEMATOGRAPHER, FEBRUARY, 1963 109