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There was a change of venue for the
29 meeting of ASC active members,

May
who
gathered at Eastman Kodak's Marketing
and Technical Center in Hollywood for
cocktails, buffet dinner and demonstra¬

tions of two important new develop¬
ments in motion picture technology.
The cinematographers ex¬

pressed their enthusiasm for Eastman's

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new EXR film 5248, which was demon¬
strated for the first time. Rated at E1100,
the tungsten balanced film incorporates
T grain technology in all layers. The ex¬
cellence of its image structure and satu¬
ration of colors was readily apparent.
ASC members Woody Omens and Wil¬
liam A. Fraker described and screened

some
new

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Cinema Digital Sound, product
of a joint venture of Kodak and Optical
Radiation Corporation, was also ac¬
claimed

as a breakthrough. This is a
digital optical sound-on-film system
which rivals compact discs in terms of
quality of reproduction. The sound track
is unlike any other, consisting of tiny dots
in a colored field. It is not subject to

noises from wear
traditional tracks.

as

is the

case

with

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Recently he was at the helm of a twohour GunsmokeFJ special which can be
counted among the finest dramas to hit
the small screen. Other Correll-directed
TV shows have ranged from the stylish
Wise Guy and Murphy's Law to the rug¬

ged location work of McGyverand Tour
of Duty.

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the past were such famed cinematographers as Edwin S. Porter, Karl Brown, Phil

Hora faces the
camera in Grem

Rosen, ASC, Norman A. Dawn, ASC,

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Victor

Fleming, George Stevens, Karl
Freund, ASC, Rudolph Mate, ASC,
George "Tripod" Hill, Byron Haskin, ASC,

and Ted Tetzlaff, ASC.
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Less common are cinematog¬
rapher/actors. John Hora, ASC, had a
good role as a scientist several years ago
in Inner Space. He also played in the
current Gremlins II
but it ended up in
the editor's trim bin. Dean Cundey, ASC,
has a showy costume role in the current
Back to the Future III as a frontier pho¬
tographer in 1885.
Several of the RKO Radio pic¬
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Charles Correll, ASC, is one of
the several active cinematographers who
have turned their hands to directing.

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recent tests

film.

Well known is the directorial
work of such currently active ASC mem¬
bers

as

William A. Fraker, Caleb

Deschanel, John Flinn, and John
MacPherson.
The link between director and
director of photography has always been

tures from the 1930s now on cable TV

show Lester Shorr, ASC, a
tant cameraman at the

what he

was

youthful assis¬

time, portraying

destined to become:

a

di¬

rector of

photography. In Scarlet River

(1933),

Western about

a

a

movie

com¬

making a Western, he has dialogue.
Myrna Loy, Joel McCrea and Bruce Cabot
pany

cameos as themselves. In the
marvelous Richard Dix spectacular, The

also did

Lost Squadron (1932), a large number of
RKO cameramen appeared as them¬
selves being browbeaten by Erich von
Stroheim (a director playing a director).

strong. Among the leading directors of

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