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Cutting-Edge Cameraman
sal film, something he particularly
enjoyed.
At Trinity University, also in San
Antonio, he majored in live theater with
an emphasis on lighting design and set
construction, but his attention
frequently drifted to the nascent film
department. While courses weren't yet
being offered, the department had
begun to acquire equipment. "The
chairman said I could use the equipment myself," Bennett recalls. "I think
he wanted to see if everything worked
well, and I was happy to test it. I had the
run of the place - I didn't have to get in
line to use any of the cameras."
Around this time, Bennett
discovered American Cinematographer
magazine as well as the American
Cinematographer Manual, which
brought the ASC to his attention for
the first time. He continued his theater
path, but devoted much of his time to
making student films of his own. The
fledgling filmmaker was undeniably
hooked.
While still in college, Bennett
and some friends developed their own
"multimedia" enterprise, creating short
slide/movie presentations for a number
of local businesses. After graduating,
Bennett found work - and on-set
experience as a camera assistant - at a
local production company. But when he
moved to Los Angeles in search of similar employment, he found that his previous experience didn't get him so much
as an interview anywhere. So, making
the most of his theater background, he
went to work building sets for commercial production companies.
It was in this capacity that
Bennett met top-tier commercial director-cinematographer Ron Dexter, who
would himself eventually be invited into
the ranks of the ASC. Dexter recalls
that Bennett "came in as a carpenter and
left as a cameraman. I needed a wall to
separate two offices, and he'd worked
with a local set builder, so I hired him to
help with that." After Bennett
performed admirably in that capacity,
Dexter brought him back in to work on
his camera team. "Soon," Bennett
Top: Bennett and actor Janice
Kirk working on a student
film at Trinity University in
San Antonio, Texas, in 1971.
Middle: Bennett shooting a
student film in "Cinerama
style" with three 16mm
cameras in 1972. Bottom:
Bennett on the set of The
Black Stallion Returns in
Morocco in 1982. The camera
is mounted to the Terra-Flite,
a stabilized device invented
by Ron Dexter, ASC and built
by Bennett, which extended
from the side of the camera
car and provided the
perspectives of racing horses.
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