Camera Operator

The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation Presents

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Highlights

Hector Ramirez on qualities a good camera operator has

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Bertram van Munster on how the camera is an extension of your eye

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Ed Resnick on advice to aspiring cameramen

03:27

Hector Ramirez on his start as a camera operator for CBS

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Bertram van Munster on the advice Cops producer John Langley gave him: "never bring a tripod"

Who talked about this profession

Wade Bingham

Wade Bingham on the job of a camera operator/cinematographer on a news program or documentary series

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Wade Bingham on starting to use multiple cameras for news stories

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Frank Biondo

Frank Biondo on going to school for TV production

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Frank Biondo on the types of cameras he worked with in TV production in the 1960s and working in early color television

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Frank Biondo on the types of camera shots on Sesame Street Christmas specials and Sesame Street

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Frank Biondo on what he enjoys about being a camera operator

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Frank Biondo on advice to an aspiring camera operator

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Frank Biondo on advice to an aspiring camera operator

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Bertram van Munster

Bertram van Munster on the advice Cops producer John Langley gave him: "never bring a tripod"

Bertram van Munster on how the camera is an extension of your eye

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Hector Ramirez

Hector Ramirez on his start as a camera operator for CBS

01:44

Hector Ramirez on how shooting in front of a live audience changes what was done in rehearsal

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Hector Ramirez on being staff vs. a freelance camera operator

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Hector Ramirez on qualities a good camera operator has

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Hector Ramirez on the elements of good composition and his visual style

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Hector Ramirez on what makes a good camera operator

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Ed Resnick

Ed Resnick on advice to aspiring cameramen

03:27

Joseph M. Wilcots

Joseph M. Wilcots on becoming the first Black member of the cinematographers union

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Joseph M. Wilcots on the cinematographers union not being quick to welcome Black members

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About

"A good camera operator has the ability to recognize and to produce and to give whatever the director needs or the producers need. To be able to replicate what they see in their head - their vision." - Hector Ramirez, Camera Operator

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