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Post by dans on Mar 13, 2023 21:31:35 GMT
What did they call newsreel photographers in the US during World War 2? Just 'movie photographers'? Is cinematographer the right word?
What is a good reason a superhero based in New York City would NOT attend a War Bond Rally in New York City? I want the Volunteer and Raptor (Batman/Robin or Captain America/Bucky analogs) who are based in NY to be at the rally but not Major Power (Captain Marvel analog, perhaps) who is also based in NY to not be at the rally. I suppose he might be on a mission with the Alliance of Mystery Heroes... any other thoughts?
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Post by DocQuantum on Mar 13, 2023 23:19:14 GMT
Check out some Johnny Quick stories. He was a newsreel cameraman. Nobody called them cinematographers -- that's more of a Hollywood thing.
I don't think comic-book superheroes attended War Bond rallies more than once in a while, so any reason will do. No real person would be expected to be at all of them, either.
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Post by redsycorax on Mar 13, 2023 23:46:09 GMT
Here's a Wikipedia backgrounder on US WW2 war bonds: en.wikipedia/org/wiki/Series_E_bondAs a thought, I imagine attendance at War Bond rallies might have been stronger at the beginning of the Second World War, tapering off as the Allies gained ground and the outcome of the war looked more certain, so there'd be less need for them. If you time your story after D-Day 1944, for instance, there might be fewer people at a war bond rally. Or perhaps your heroes are also members of historic US 'peace denominations' and people respect their religious beliefs about the morality of war? Let's say one's a Quaker and the other's a Mennonite, for instance? Given the absence of broadcast television in the United States and elsewhere during this period, they would have used the term newsreel cameraman or photographer (if the person also did publicity stills for advertisements of their footage). The term cinematographer tended to be reserved for those involved in the technical side of film making such as sourcing film stock, insuring lighting was satisfactory, keeping film in manageable and useful condition, editing, various resultant draft cuts for audience tests and after censorship recommendations for modification had been taken into account. |
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Post by dans on Mar 14, 2023 0:22:39 GMT
yeah. There is a Batman story about a Newsreel company in WW2 and they just call them cameramen. So that's it for now. This story is early in the war. But Major Power does have other obligations.
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Post by redsycorax on Mar 14, 2023 0:30:50 GMT
Well, there you are, then. If Major Power is involved in an essential war industry in their civilian identity, or in law enforcement or national defence roles as an action hero, then no-one would expect them to attend a war rally when there are more pressing issues of wartime industrial capacity, law and order or national defence to take precedence.
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Post by dans on Mar 18, 2023 16:09:22 GMT
anyone know what they said in World War 2 about everyone's '15 minutes of fame'? As best I can determine that quote comes from the late 60s - was there anything similar decades earlier? For example, if a factory worker was filmed in a newsreel and the newsreel was then distributed nationwide and to all the armed services overseas, was there a term for the exposure? I got my '15 minutes of fame' on a high school quiz tv show in the 60s, for example... what would they call that in the early 40s?
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Post by dans on Mar 18, 2023 17:57:15 GMT
maybe something related to the Roman saying, 'all glory is fleeting'...
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Post by DocQuantum on Mar 18, 2023 19:10:31 GMT
Fame is fleeting would be a more modern version of the phrase.
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