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Unit photography by Monty Brinton; Richard Cartwright; Sonja Flemming; Richard Foreman, SMPSP; Ron P. Jaffe; Cliff Lipson; and Adam Rose, courtesy of CBS Broadcasting, Inc.

Opposite, clockwise
from top left: NCIS
agents Gibbs (Mark
Harmon), DiNozzo
(Michael Weatherly),
David (Cote de Pablo)
and McGee (Sean
Murray) confer with
medical examiner
Mallard (David
McCallum) and his
assistant, Palmer (Brian
Dietzen), on the series
NCIS. This page, top:
Gibbs meets with NCIS
Director Vance (Rocky
Carroll). Middle: David
and DiNozzo step
outside with Senior FBI
Agent Fornell (Joe
Spano). Bottom:
Cinematographer
William Webb, ASC
(right) and B-camera
operator Christos
Bitsakos line up a shot
on location.

Ziva David (Cote de Pablo) work. The
scene at hand finds Gibbs in conversation with DiNozzo, McGee, Senior FBI
Agent Tobias Fornell ( Joe Spano), and
Richard Parsons (Colin Hanks), an
investigator for the Naval Inspector
General.
Between takes, Webb runs out to
confer with A- and B-camera operators
George Loomis and Christos Bitsakos,
respectively. Webb worked as a camera
assistant before enrolling at the
American Film Institute. After graduating, he interned for Robert Richardson,
ASC on Born on the Fourth of July, and
thereafter found steady employment as a
camera operator. “I picked up a
Steadicam, and I worked with some
great cinematographers, including
Bobby Byrne [ASC], Bill Pope [ASC],
Jim Chressanthis [ASC] and Hugo
Cortina,” Webb recounts. Cortina
brought Webb along to operate on JAG,
and when Cortina moved on, Webb
moved up to director of photography.
Webb was well into his second full
season as JAG’s cinematographer when
Bellisario and Don McGill had the idea
for NCIS. Bellisario tested the waters
with a two-part storyline (season-eight
episodes “Ice Queen” and “Meltdown”)
that introduced a number of NCIS principals. When CBS ordered NCIS to
series, Bellisario asked Webb to help
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