4/5/2023 0 Comments Combat cameraman![]() Just such a camera - probably the world’s first motion picture camera specifically designed for combat use - has been perfected by Harry Cunningham, one of Hollywood’s most brilliant camera designers. For their use, a combat camera must combine sturdiness with simplicity, and foolproof operation with precision. But a camera that is ideally suited for normal studio cinematography, or for portable use by commercial and newsreel cinematographers under peacetime conditions may not necessarily be so ideally adapted to the use of a soldier-cameraman in a South Pacific foxhole, or a sailor-cinematographer on convoy duty off Arctic Murmansk, or an aviator in a Flying Fortress 30,000 feet in the air. Up to date, most of this military camera-reporting seems to have been done with the standard type of 35mm. Their cameras will bring back actual records of front-line operations on land, at sea and in the air some for purely tactical and technological study, and some as documentary-film reports to the American public. By the time our forces grow to their full strength, the number of these combat cameramen may well run into the thousands. Army, Navy, Air Forces and Marine Corps have put hundreds of cinematographers into the field to bring back a living record of this global war. ![]() This war, it becomes increasingly evident, is going to be fought almost as much with cameras as with guns. This article originally appeared in AC November 1942.
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