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Lubin said that "Mohr was one
of the great cameramen of our time."
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"He did many pictures for me,
and all the directors wanted him."
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Mohr's credits include The Jazz Singer,
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Outward Bound, The Lost Moment,
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Destry Rides Again,
Captain Blood, The Wild One.
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He won an Academy Award
for A Midsummer Night's Dream.
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He shot King of Jazz, the Universal
Technicolor musical, in 1930,
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and one of their early talkie horror films,
The Cat Creeps, the same year.
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He had shot The Last Warning for director
PáI Fejös on the Phantom stage in 1929.
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He'd actually photographed
Lon Chaney in The Monster in 1925.
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For Fejös's picture Broadway in 1929
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he had helped develop
an incredible camera crane
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that could turn 360 degrees,
boom up, boom down -
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the most remarkable piece of equipment
ever seen of its type.
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Technicolor supplied their own
cameraman, W Howard Greene,
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nicknamed "Duke".
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He was required by Technicolor's
contract to work with Mohr.
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Greene had a problem. He was an
alcoholic and he was frequently drunk.
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The crew covered for him
as best they could,
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and Mohr effectively had
to carry the show all on his own.
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Mohr was a very gallant-if aloof-man,
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and Susanna Foster
remembered his behaviour.
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One day she returned late from a lunch
hour and she was loudly tongue-lashed
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by producer George Waggner
in front of the crew.
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Mohr went to her rescue just as loudly
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and shouted down his producer for
the outburst-a very risky thing to do.
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By contract,
Natalie Kalmus of Technicolor
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was there to supervise
all of the colour design.
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Mohr loathed Mrs Kalmus.
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When Arthur Lubin started colour tests
of Eddy and Foster,
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he too found her presence
to be "a pain in the ass".
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"We had to test everything for her."
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"There was a great deal of interference
from Technicolor."
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"They'd say 'You're putting too much red
in' or 'You need more green'."
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"She and Duke made the final decisions."
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"You'd listen to Technicolor if they had
the final say on the printing of the thing."