Talk about concentration. A KYW Philadelphia cameraman was on the sidelines shooting the Eagles/Cleveland Browns game last Sunday when Eagles’ receiver Jordan Matthews hauled in a pass for a touchdown. Kyle Hall captured all the action and kept shooting as Matthews took in the pass in the end zone and then his momentum caused him […]
A KYW Philadelphia cameraman was on the sidelines shooting the Eagles/Cleveland Browns game last Sunday when Eagles’ receiver Jordan Matthews hauled in a pass for a touchdown.
Kyle Hall captured all the action and kept shooting as Matthews took in the pass in the end zone and then his momentum caused him to crash his helmet into the lens of Hall’s camera, giving Hall a swollen lip, but an unforgettable shot.
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When shooting, sports and news camera professionals have only one eye open and can only see what they view through the lens of their camera.
I have some advice for Hall. Check out the 1966 Billy Wilder movie, The Fortune Cookie, and get yourself a lawyer like the one portrayed by Walter Matthau.
In the movie, Jack Lemmon plays a network cameraman who gets hit by an NFL player on the sideline. The lawyer, played by Matthau, is Lemmon’s on-screen brother-in-law. They both decide to fake a serious injury while they sue the network, the NFL and the stadium.
The only thing to come of it was laughs.
Kyle, if you decide to go the litigation route, go for free sideline passes for life, or at least the remainder of the season.
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