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that suggested he look for work in
Toronto. There, he was promptly hired
by CTV as part of a two-man sound
crew, and was sent to Northern Ireland
one week after Bloody Sunday to cover
the fallout in Newry, a hotbed of Irish
Republican Army activity.
The producer scored an interview
with the IRA’s second in command for
that region. The crew was loaded into a
cab, blindfolded and driven in circles for
40 minutes before being whisked into
the back room of a pub to meet the
man. Charters recalls, “He had a turtleneck sweater pulled up over his face,
and we did an interview with him while
two armed men stood behind him. The
next day, we were filming the march,
and I locked eyes with a guy in the
crowd that I recognized to be the one
we interviewed — he was a wanted
man, standing out in broad daylight. He
knew I knew who he was, so we had to
get the hell out of there!”
Charters was stationed in CTV’s
London bureau, which covered events
in England, Africa and the Middle
East. He worked with famed Canadian
broadcaster Michael MacLear. “I realized that to be taken seriously as a
shooter, I had to buy a camera, so I
bought an Éclair ACL and spent six
months in the Amazon jungle shooting
a documentary about members of the
Baha’i faith living there,” he says. When
he returned to CTV, he transitioned to
cameraman, bought an Arri 16SR, and
shot documentary and news footage
for the next decade. He became a
member of the Canadian Society of
Cinematographers in 1978.
In 1986, out of the blue, cinematographer and future ASC member
Mark Irwin, CSC offered Charters the
B-camera position on a hockey film
called Youngblood. Irwin needed someone who could follow the puck. “I
hadn’t shot 35mm before,” Charters
says. “I shot 90 fps most of the time on
a 300mm lens on the ice during games.
In dailies, we watched everything go
slowly out of focus. It was a total nightmare for my focus puller, but we got
through it.”
Top: Charters uses a dolly he built and shipped to Hafai to use in the Baha’i Gardens and Shrines in 1980.
Bottom: Charters and fellow crewmembers stand behind John Huston following the shooting of
American Caesar, a documentary about Gen. Douglas MacArthur.
When Irwin decided to move to
America for work, he asked Charters to
take over for him as cinematographer on
the TV series Adderly. “That show was
derring-do and spy-type stuff,” says
Charters. “I used my SR. I bought a
little 30-60mm T1.3 zoom, and we’d
shoot the whole thing wide open. On
www.theasc.com
16mm, it ended up looking pretty
good.”
In 1987, he began shooting the
series Friday the 13th. These were the
early days of TV drama in Toronto, and
the production was allowed to experiment and push boundaries without
much corporate interference — until
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American Cinematographer - March 2013
Contents
Editor’s Note
President’s Desk
Short Takes: Die Antwoord’s “I Fink U Freeky”
Production Slate: Lore
Trials by Fire
Strong Foundations
Tech Savvy
New Products & Services
International Marketplace
Classified Ads
Ad Index
In Memoriam: Charles Austin, ASC • Alfred Taylor, ASC
ASC Membership Roster
Clubhouse News
ASC Close-Up: Russell Carpenter
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American Cinematographer - March 2013 - Editor’s Note
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American Cinematographer - March 2013 - President’s Desk
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American Cinematographer - March 2013 - Short Takes: Die Antwoord’s “I Fink U Freeky”
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American Cinematographer - March 2013 - In Memoriam: Charles Austin, ASC • Alfred Taylor, ASC
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American Cinematographer - March 2013 - ASC Membership Roster
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