https://shotonwhat.com/cameras/mitchell-cameras The Source for Motion Picture & Television Technical Information Sat, 15 Jun 2019 04:17:42 -0800 en-US hourly 1 https://shotonwhat.com/the-39-steps-1935 Fri, 14 Mar 2025 15:38:36 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-39-steps-1935
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cinematographer: Bernard Knowles
A man in London tries to help a counter-espionage agent, but when the agent is killed and the man stands accused, he must go on the run to save himself and stop a spy ring that is trying to steal top-secret information. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/blade-runner-1982 Tue, 01 Oct 2024 10:03:56 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/blade-runner-1982
Director: Ridley Scott
Cinematographer: Jordan Cronenweth
A blade runner must pursue and terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space, and have returned to Earth to find their creator. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-1966 Thu, 05 Sep 2024 17:29:03 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-1966
Director: Sergio Leone
Cinematographer: Tonino Delli Colli
A bounty hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third in a race to find a fortune in gold buried in a remote cemetery. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/i-love-lucy-1957 Sat, 31 Aug 2024 20:16:49 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/i-love-lucy-1957
Director: William Asher, James V. Kern, Marc Daniels, Ralph Levy
Cinematographer: Karl Freund, Sidney Hickox, Robert De Grasse
A daffy woman constantly strives to become a star along with her bandleader husband and gets herself in the strangest situations. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/touch-of-evil-1958 Fri, 30 Aug 2024 14:41:57 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/touch-of-evil-1958
Director: Orson Welles
Cinematographer: Russell Metty
A stark, perverse story of murder, kidnapping and police corruption in a Mexican border town. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/citizen-kane-1941 Fri, 30 Aug 2024 11:58:30 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/citizen-kane-1941
Director: Orson Welles
Cinematographer: Gregg Toland
Following the death of a publishing tycoon, news reporters scramble to discover the meaning of his final utterance. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-magnificent-ambersons-1942 Wed, 28 Aug 2024 14:18:21 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-magnificent-ambersons-1942
Director: Orson Welles, Fred Fleck, Robert Wise
Cinematographer: Stanley Cortez, Jack MacKenzie, Orson Welles
The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/she-wore-a-yellow-ribbon-1949 Tue, 16 Jul 2024 18:24:17 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/she-wore-a-yellow-ribbon-1949
Director: John Ford
Cinematographer: Winton C. Hoch
Captain Nathan Brittles, on the eve of retirement, takes out a last patrol to stop an impending massive Indian attack. Encumbered by women who must be evacuated, Brittles finds his mission imperiled. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/romeo-and-juliet-1968 Mon, 15 Jul 2024 19:54:51 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/romeo-and-juliet-1968
Director: Franco Zeffirelli
Cinematographer: Pasqualino De Santis
When two young members of feuding families meet, forbidden love ensues. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/white-shadows-in-the-south-seas-1928 Mon, 15 Jul 2024 01:41:58 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/white-shadows-in-the-south-seas-1928
Director: W.S. Van Dyke, Robert J. Flaherty
Cinematographer: Clyde De Vinna, George Gordon Nogle, Bob Roberts
An alcoholic doctor on a Polynesian island, disgusted by white exploitation of the natives, finds himself marooned on a pristinely beautiful island. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-great-waltz-1938 Mon, 15 Jul 2024 01:31:37 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-great-waltz-1938
Director: Julien Duvivier, Victor Fleming, Josef von Sternberg
Cinematographer: Joseph Ruttenberg
In 1845 Vienna, Johann Strauss II (Fernand Gravey) - 'Jonahi' to his friends - would rather write and perform waltzes than anything else, this at a time when a waltz is not considered proper society music. After he is fired from h... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/mr-deeds-goes-to-town-1936 Sat, 13 Jul 2024 10:28:56 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/mr-deeds-goes-to-town-1936
Director: Frank Capra
Cinematographer: Joseph Walker
A unassuming greeting card poet from a small town in Vermont heads to New York City upon inheriting a massive fortune and is immediately hounded by those who wish to take advantage of him. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/7th-heaven-1927 Fri, 12 Jul 2024 12:24:46 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/7th-heaven-1927
Director: Frank Borzage
Cinematographer: Ernest Palmer, Joseph A. Valentine
A street cleaner saves a young woman's life, and the pair slowly fall in love until war intervenes. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-good-earth-1937 Wed, 10 Jul 2024 19:04:09 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-good-earth-1937
Director: Sidney Franklin, Victor Fleming, Gustav Machatý, Sam Wood
Cinematographer: Karl Freund
Although married Chinese farmers Wang and O-Lan initially experience success, their lives are complicated by declining fortunes and lean times, as well as the arrival of the beautiful young Lotus. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-informer-1935 Sat, 06 Jul 2024 16:00:13 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-informer-1935
Director: John Ford
Cinematographer: Joseph H. August
In 1922, an Irish rebel informs on his friend, then feels doom closing in. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/from-russia-with-love-1963 Sat, 06 Jul 2024 15:55:04 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/from-russia-with-love-1963
Director: Terence Young
Cinematographer: Ted Moore
James Bond willingly falls into an assassination plot involving a naive Russian beauty in order to retrieve a Soviet encryption device that was stolen by the organization Spectre. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/goldfinger-1964 Sat, 06 Jul 2024 15:54:09 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/goldfinger-1964
Director: Guy Hamilton
Cinematographer: Ted Moore
While investigating a gold magnate's smuggling, James Bond uncovers a plot to contaminate the Fort Knox gold reserve. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/thunderball-1965 Sat, 06 Jul 2024 15:52:39 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/thunderball-1965
Director: Terence Young
Cinematographer: Ted Moore
James Bond heads to the Bahamas to recover two nuclear warheads stolen by S.P.E.C.T.R.E. Agent Emilio Largo in an international extortion scheme. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/you-only-live-twice-1967 Sat, 06 Jul 2024 15:48:34 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/you-only-live-twice-1967
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Cinematographer: Freddie Young
James Bond and the Japanese Secret Service must find and stop the true culprit of a series of space hijackings, before war is provoked between Russia and the United States. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/on-her-majestys-secret-service-1969 Sat, 06 Jul 2024 15:20:26 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/on-her-majestys-secret-service-1969
Director: Peter R. Hunt
Cinematographer: Michael Reed
British agent James Bond goes undercover to pursue the villainous Ernst Stavro Blofeld, who is planning to hold the world to ransom. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/dr-no-1962 Sat, 06 Jul 2024 15:03:58 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/dr-no-1962
Director: Terence Young
Cinematographer: Ted Moore
A resourceful British government agent seeks answers in a case involving the disappearance of a colleague and the disruption of the American space program. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/badlands-1973 Mon, 01 Jul 2024 11:42:57 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/badlands-1973
Director: Terrence Malick
Cinematographer: Tak Fujimoto, Stevan Larner, Brian Probyn
An impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town, and her older greaser boyfriend, embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota Badlands. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/cleopatra-2-1934 Tue, 21 May 2024 18:05:32 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/cleopatra-2-1934
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Cinematographer: Victor Milner
The man-hungry Queen of Egypt leads Julius Caesar and Marc Antony astray, amid scenes of DeMillean splendor. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/skippy-1931 Tue, 21 May 2024 04:55:39 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/skippy-1931
Director: Norman Taurog
Cinematographer: Karl Struss
Skippy, the mischievous son of a wealthy doctor, meets Sooky in poverty-ridden Shantytown, and together they try to save Sooky's pet from a cruel dogcatcher. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-treasure-of-the-sierra-madre-1948 Sun, 19 May 2024 22:01:52 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-treasure-of-the-sierra-madre-1948
Director: John Huston
Cinematographer: Ted D. McCord
Two down-on-their-luck Americans searching for work in 1920s Mexico convince an old prospector to help them mine for gold in the Sierra Madre Mountains. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/sunrise-1927 Sun, 19 May 2024 21:37:42 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/sunrise-1927
Director: F.W. Murnau
Cinematographer: Charles Rosher, Karl Struss
A sophisticated city woman seduces a farmer and convinces him to murder his wife and join her in the city, but he ends up rekindling his romance with his wife when he changes his mind at the last moment. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-quiet-man-1952 Sun, 19 May 2024 20:44:56 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-quiet-man-1952
Director: John Ford
Cinematographer: Winton C. Hoch
A retired American boxer returns to the village of his birth in Ireland, where he finds love. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-grapes-of-wrath-1940 Sun, 19 May 2024 19:56:32 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-grapes-of-wrath-1940
Director: John Ford
Cinematographer: Gregg Toland
A poor Midwest family is forced off their land. They travel to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/giant-1956 Fri, 17 May 2024 14:50:12 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/giant-1956
Director: George Stevens
Cinematographer: William C. Mellor
Sprawling epic covering the life of a Texas cattle rancher and his family and associates. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/bonnie-and-clyde-1967 Thu, 16 May 2024 17:25:24 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/bonnie-and-clyde-1967
Director: Arthur Penn
Cinematographer: Burnett Guffey
Bored waitress Bonnie Parker falls in love with an ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, stealing cars and robbing banks. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/apocalypse-now-1979 Thu, 16 May 2024 02:26:06 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/apocalypse-now-1979
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Cinematographer: Vittorio Storaro
]]> https://shotonwhat.com/barry-lyndon-1975 Wed, 15 May 2024 16:51:30 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/barry-lyndon-1975
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Cinematographer: John Alcott
An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's aristocratic position in 18th-century England. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/stalker-1979 Fri, 26 Apr 2024 00:53:39 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/stalker-1979
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
Cinematographer: Aleksandr Knyazhinskiy, Georgi Rerberg, Leonid Kalashnikov
A guide leads two men through an area known as the Zone to find a room that grants wishes. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/double-indemnity-1944 Thu, 18 Apr 2024 22:34:41 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/double-indemnity-1944
Director: Billy Wilder
Cinematographer: John F. Seitz
A Los Angeles insurance representative lets an alluring housewife seduce him into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, an insurance investigator. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-maltese-falcon-1941 Wed, 17 Apr 2024 18:27:04 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-maltese-falcon-1941
Director: John Huston
Cinematographer: Arthur Edeson
San Francisco private detective Sam Spade takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a gorgeous liar and their quest for a priceless statuette, with the stakes rising after his partner is murdered. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/sunset-blvd-1950 Tue, 09 Apr 2024 06:56:34 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/sunset-blvd-1950
Director: Billy Wilder
Cinematographer: John F. Seitz
A screenwriter develops a dangerous relationship with a faded film star determined to make a triumphant return. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/ben-hur-a-tale-of-the-christ-1925 Tue, 19 Mar 2024 21:55:00 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/ben-hur-a-tale-of-the-christ-1925
Director: Fred Niblo, Charles Brabin, Christy Cabanne, J.J. Cohn, Rex Ingram
Cinematographer: Clyde De Vinna, René Guissart, Percy Hilburn, Karl Struss, Paul Kerschner
A Jewish prince seeks to find his family and revenge himself upon his childhood friend who had him wrongly imprisoned. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-prisoner-1967 Sun, 17 Dec 2023 21:07:28 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-prisoner-1967
Director: Patrick McGoohan, Don Chaffey, Pat Jackson, David Tomblin, Robert Asher, Peter Graham Scott
Cinematographer: Brendan J. Stafford
After he resigns, a secret agent is abducted and taken to what looks like an idyllic village, but is really a bizarre prison. His warders demand information. He gives them nothing; he only tries to escape. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/persona-1966 Fri, 08 Dec 2023 15:40:35 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/persona-1966
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Cinematographer: Sven Nykvist
]]> https://shotonwhat.com/rawhide-1959 Fri, 08 Dec 2023 00:49:31 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/rawhide-1959
Director: Thomas Carr, Ted Post, Christian Nyby, Harmon Jones, Jesse Hibbs, Justus Addiss, Don McDougall, R.G. Springsteen, George Templeton, Andrew V. McLaglen, Stuart Heisler, Joseph Kane, Sobey Martin, Charles Marquis Warren, Michael O'Herlihy, Jack Arnold, Anton Leader, Harry Harris, Richard Whorf, Robert L. Friend, Tay Garnett, Bernard L. Kowalski, Vincent McEveety, George Sherman, Gerd Oswald, Gene Fowler Jr., Murray Golden, Herschel Daugherty, Philip Leacock, Bernard McEveety, Sutton Roley, Buzz Kulik, Robert D. Webb, William F. Claxton, Perry Lafferty, Allen Reisner, Laslo Benedek, James P. Yarbrough, Earl Bellamy, Alan Crosland Jr., Bernard Girard, James Goldstone, Charles F. Haas, Herman Hoffman, Charles R. Rondeau, Stuart Rosenberg
Cinematographer: John M. Nickolaus Jr., Jack Swain, Howard Schwartz, Neal Beckner, Philip H. Lathrop, Brydon Baker, Gordon Avil
Gil Favor is trail boss of a continuous cattle drive. He is assisted by Rowdy Yates. The crew runs into characters and adventures along the way. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/night-train-1999 Fri, 04 Nov 2022 22:14:56 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/night-train-1999
Director: Les Bernstien
Cinematographer: Patrick Melly
]]> https://shotonwhat.com/king-kong-2-1933 Tue, 12 Nov 2019 13:32:36 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/king-kong-2-1933
Director: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack
Cinematographer: Edward Linden, J.O. Taylor, Vernon L. Walker, Kenneth Peach
A film crew goes to a tropical island for an exotic location shoot and discovers a colossal ape who takes a shine to their female blonde star. He is then captured and brought back to New York City for public exhibition. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-lord-of-the-rings-the-two-towers-2002 Thu, 26 Sep 2019 13:04:16 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-lord-of-the-rings-the-two-towers-2002
Director: Peter Jackson
Cinematographer: Andrew Lesnie
While Frodo and Sam edge closer to Mordor with the help of the shifty Gollum, the divided fellowship makes a stand against Sauron's new ally, Saruman, and his hordes of Isengard. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-lord-of-the-rings-the-return-of-the-king-2003 Thu, 26 Sep 2019 13:00:45 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-lord-of-the-rings-the-return-of-the-king-2003
Director: Peter Jackson
Cinematographer: Andrew Lesnie
Gandalf and Aragorn lead the World of Men against Sauron's army to draw his gaze from Frodo and Sam as they approach Mount Doom with the One Ring. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-godfather-1972 Thu, 19 Sep 2019 19:56:06 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-godfather-1972
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Cinematographer: Gordon Willis
The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/don-quixote-1973 Wed, 19 Jun 2019 12:27:13 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/don-quixote-1973
Director: Robert Helpmann, Rudolf Nureyev
Cinematographer: Geoffrey Unsworth
A film adaptation of the Ludwig Minkus ballet, completely re-orchestrated and with additional music by John Lanchbery. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/going-my-way-1944 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 09:46:06 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/going-my-way-1944
Director: Leo McCarey
Cinematographer: Lionel Lindon, John F. Seitz
Father Charles O'Mailey, a young priest at a financially failing Church in a tough neighborhood, gains support and inspires his superior. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/on-the-waterfront-1954 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 09:41:54 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/on-the-waterfront-1954
Director: Elia Kazan
Cinematographer: Boris Kaufman
An ex-prize fighter turned longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/i-call-first-1967 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 08:16:30 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/i-call-first-1967
Director: Martin Scorsese
Cinematographer: Richard H. Coll, Michael Wadleigh
A young man struggles with the fact that his girlfriend was once raped. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/dr-strangelove-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-bomb-1964 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 08:14:24 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/dr-strangelove-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-bomb-1964
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Cinematographer: Gilbert Taylor
An insane general triggers a path to nuclear holocaust that a War Room full of politicians and generals frantically tries to stop. ]]>