Watching the credits unfold at the beginning and end of a film we get to see the great cross section of folks, visionary, powerful, working class, temporary, on the rise, on the make and everything in between, who were part of the making of the movie. Great directors know how to bring out the best in their people, but even those great marshallers of energy and talent need a good lensman to make the images that they see in their heads really pop up on the big screen.
It's the 20th anniversary of the Hubble telescope. James Wong Howe, among others, will always be at the top my favorite cinematographers lists, but that mighty telescope, soaring alone high above earth, directed by a talented group of NASA visionaries, should certainly go down as being one of the great, if not the greatest "lensman", of all time.
Thanks, Hubble for those magnificent peeks into the beginnings of our universe!
Action!
Hubble homepage:
NPR article on Hubble's anniversary:
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