- In 1928 he and a crew were sent to Alaska to shoot some background footage for a film to be made about Eskimos. During their stay they became lost on the Arctic tundra and wandered with little food and water for ten days before they were finally spotted by a rescue plane. They was unable to sleep during that period, because of snow blindness and the fear that if they went to sleep they would freeze to death, and in his autobiography he stated that the experience so unnerved him that for the rest of his life he was never able to get a good night's sleep.
- President American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) 1948-50.
- President American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) 1951-53.
- In 1922 he was invited to a demonstration of a new three-dimensional projection process in which a theater was equipped with two special projectors. Each seat in the theater had a flexible shaft arrangement, at the end of which was a shutter contained between two plates of glass. The shutter was rotated by a tiny motor which was driven in synchronization with a special shutter in front of the two projectors. The viewer saw the performance through a little shutter located at each seat. The process turned out to be not very successful, and it soon faded away. But its name stuck--"television".
- With the introduction of CinemaScope by 20th Century Fox, they had him write "CinemaScope Photographic Techniques" for cinematographers using the new system.
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