User blog:Roll-film/my time behind a film camera

Hollywood Apprenticeships

I grew up in Los Angeles. After I graduated from high school, like most youngsters, he had a favourite playground: it happened to be the old Warner Bros. Studio on Sunset Boulevard where my uncial worked  as a production manager, I was lucky to get a part time job working as a darkroom accent for, Consolidated Film Industries in Hollywood, I had to movie to my sister’s home where I could walk to work  at that time  She lived at 6368 Rosewood Ave, and it took me 15mins to walk to 959 Seward Street where I worked, I worked for four years.

After graduating as an electrical engineer from California Institute of Technology I obtained a position with the research team at Warner Bros. Special Effects Department on Stage 5 in Burbank. I was hired by Byron Haskin, ASC, and head of the Warner Bros. Special Effects Department on Stage 5 in Burbank. Since this was the largest such department in the movie business, I was able to work with some of the top cinematographers in the effects field, such as ASC fellows Edwin DuPar, Hans Koenekamp and Warren Lynch. When Warner Bros. purchased First National's studio in Burbank, California, I signed a contract and remained with the studio on and off for the next 30 years.

Both my uncles, work a warner brothers studios as did my father, after high school graduation I moved to my sister’s house so I could get to the California Institute of Technology. I was also fortunate enough to land a part time job working as a darkroom accent for, Consolidated Film Industries in Hollywood. I got into the cinematographers department after joining the I.A.T.S.E. International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Moving Picture Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts of the United States. I worked in the film industry throughout the late 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and into the 1990s.