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American

Society of Cinematographers
Society of Cinematog¬
raphers is not a labor union or a guild,

The American
but is

an

educational, cultural and

professional organization. Membership
is by invitation to those who are
actively engaged as Directors of
Photography and have demonstrated
outstanding ability. Not all
cinematographers can place the initials
asc after their names, asc membership
has become one of the highest honors
that

can

be bestowed upon a

professional cinematographer, a mark
of prestige and distinction.
Officers

William A. Fraker
President

Stanley Cortez
1st Vice President

Joseph Westheimer
2nd Vice President

Milton Krasner
3rd Vice President

Alfred Keller
Linwood G. Dunn
Treasurer

Fapp
Sergeant-At-Arms
Board of Governors

L.B. Abbott

Linwood G. Dunn
Daniel Fapp

operator on the 1960 Winter
Olympics which received an Emmy
Award for best photography. He worked
for the Canadian Broadcasting Company
before coming to the United States
where he was assistant cameraman for
such television pleasers as Wild, Wild

his credits in the recent past also
numerous other television series

William A. Fraker

Henry Freulich
Milton Krasner

The Waltons, White
Shadow, Spiderman and Jessica

Philip Lathrop

Novak.

Gene Polito

Ric Waite, a former Colora¬
doan, served in the U.S. Air Force from
1952-56 and was a fashion and il¬

including

Leonard South
Ted Voigtlander

lustration still photographer in New
York for ten years. He moved to Los

Harry Wolf
Alternates

Howard Anderson

Richard Glouner

Richard

Michael Margulies

Kelley

Executive Director

career

in 1963 shooting

many

include

Lester Shorr

Frank Raymond began his

professional

Gayne Rescher, The Day After and
Harry Stradling, Jr., George
Washington.
For best cinematography on a
series: James Crabe, Mickey
SpiDane's Mike Hammer; Sherman
Kunkel, Fame; Richard Rawlings, Dy¬
nasty and Howard Schwartz, Air Wolf.
Three cinematographers were
admitted to membership in the ASC
recently. They include Ric Waite, Frank
Raymond and Hugh Gagnier.
Gagnier, a former Canadian
newsreel cameraman, began his career
after military service with the Royal
Canadian Navy. He was an electronic

ever,

George Folsey

(Paramount).

stills for World Wide Pictures. He filmed

West, Rawhide, Hogan's Heroes,
Gilligan's Island and Gunsmoke. He
currently devotes his time as director of
photography on Knots Landing; how¬

Joseph Biroc
Stanley Cortez

(Universal), Red Dawn (MGM/UA),
Footloose (Paramount) and 48 Hrs.

Desire; Philip Lathrop, Celebrity;

camera

Secretary

Daniel

Nominees for Emmy awards in the field
of cinematography this year include sev¬
eral A.S.C. members.
For a limited series or spe¬
cial: Wilmer Butler, A Streetcar Named

Angeles in 1964 and began his career
in motion pictures shooting commercials

documentaries and two features
before concentrating on filming for tele¬
vision. His credits as director of photog¬

raphy include Joni, Palms, Magnum
P.I., Flamingo Road and most recently,
Falcon Crest since 1982.
Glen Kershner, a member of
A.S.C. for 57 years, celebrated his
100th

birthday July 20th of this

Kershner, who lives in Honolulu,

year.
was

remembered

by his colleagues in the
Society with a gift.
In 1904, as Kerschner tells it,
his father bought him a new pair of
shoes for a dollar and a half and with
the shoes he received a two-inch square
box Kodak with an accompanying small
box of glass plates. The instructions
said to load in

yellow or red light. After
loading young Kershner went out to his
yard to photograph a pet rooster. Sud¬
denly he heard an explosion and saw a
column of white smoke. He pho¬
tographed this instead and took his
plates to the village photo gallery to be
developed. The following day, the Cin¬
cinnati Enquirer ran his explosion pic¬
in its editions
launched a long and

ture

tographic

career.

-

and thus

was

distinguished pho¬
Along with working

behind the camera, Kershner was a car¬
toonist for American Cinematographer
in the 20s and 30s.
Michael Margulies, ASC,
was one of four directors of photog¬

raphy filming the games of the 23rd
Olympiad in Los Angeles for the docu¬
mentary being produced by Bud
Greenspan.

and industrial films. Some of his recent
credits include Brewster's Millions

Alfred Keller
Museum Curator

Kemp Niver
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