Get that picture! The story of the news cameraman ([c1938])

GET THAT PICTURE 73 best angles. He obtained the first shots of the burned out interior of the vessel. With his clothing burned, ripped and torn, his shoes almost burned through and his face coal black from the soot and smoke, he finally managed to reach shore and return to his hotel to pack the negatives for speedy shipment back to New York. Later another news photographer went aboard the ship but forgot to keep to the windward side. He was overcome by the smoke and heat of the nearby flames, and fell face down on the hot deck. Fortunately he was spotted by an- other cameraman and carried off, painfully burned. For these heroes of the lens, it was just another day's assignment. Every job has its potential thrills and dangers, but the daring bearer of the camera faces all without the batting of an eyelash. When word came that the situation in Cuba was be- coming more serious, that the regime of President Machado was about to fall, mobs were attacking and being attacked by gun fire, Seymour Ress, Associated Press cameraman, was immediately flown from New York to Miami and then over to Havana in the first outgoing Pan American Airways plane. He had made some remarkable shots of the soldiers with machine guns and rifles in action, crowds scurrying to safety, a newspaper plant afire, and was on his way to the Pan American Airways office in Havana to put his plates aboard a plane when he was attacked by a mob at the entrance to the airfield. They forced him back into his automobile at the point of guns, smashed his camera and some of his plates, and he was released only after some of the cooler heads had intervened. When Ress had seen the mob coming, he had the trigger- quick sense, with which so many of the news photographers