American Cinematographer - February 2020 - 60
Multi-Talented
with letters of support from members
Murphy, Dibie, Tony Askins and
Robert Liu.
Morgan recalls his meeting with
the ASC Membership Committee as a
nerve-wracking experience. "There
was a light over the table, and the
walls were dark. There were a whole
bunch of people sitting way in the
back row, almost in the dark - they
were the ones that made me nervous!
But Allen Daviau gave me a lot of
confidence. He sat next to me - and
George, Bobby [Liu] and Tony were
"He had so much going on at the
time," Morgan says of Norman Lear,
on whose shows he worked decades
ago. "I never had a chance to talk to
him and thank him, and I finally got
that chance [many years later]. He
was really fair and very interested in
diversity in the crews, and he made
sure that both the content of the
shows and the way he ran everything
reflected the way he felt. He gave a
lot of people their start. If it wasn't for
him, we probably wouldn't be talking
about this ASC award."
there, too. I got in, and since then
we've been able to bring in more
multi-cam cinematographers."
Morgan expresses pride in
belonging to an organization with
such leading lights in the field. He is
also proud to be part of the Society's
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