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Filming The Vanishing Prairie
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Disney film crew filming a prescribed burn at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum for inclusion in the film The Vanishing Prairie. A cameraman with a camera on a tripod stands among dry grasses as smoke from the burn rises in the distance.
April 13, 1953
Newhouse, John
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Filming The Vanishing Prairie
April 13, 1953
Disney film crew shooting a prescribed burn at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum for inclusion in the film The Vanishing Prairie. A cameraman with a camera on a tripod films in the fore...
Filming a Prescribed Prairie Burn
1953
Disney film crew in UW-Madison Arboretum's Curtis Prairie filming a prescribed burn.
J. Peverell Marley, Cecil B. DeMille, and Camera
1922
J. Peverell Marley, cameraman (left), and Cecil B. DeMille, director (right), pose beside a Pathé motion picture camera mounted on a large tripod. An unidentified woman stands with them.
Thomas Ince and William S. Hart production still
1915
Thomas H. Ince gestures to a cameraman who is moving a Bell & Howell camera on its tripod. Over Ince's shoulder is William S. Hart in costume as a minister for an unidentified silent film production.
Filming "The Cameraman"
Cinematographers Reggie Lanning and Elgin Lessley sitting and standing on a small platform with two cameras during the filming of Buster Keaton's movie "The Cameraman." The platform is part of a wo...
Shirley Clarke and Cameraman
Shirley Clarke, wearing a hat and holding a cigarette, is leaning on the cameraman to look through the camera lens during the shooting of the film "The Cool World." The cameraman is sitting in a wh...
