Images of APC
What was it like?
Click on
any of the page topics above to see Signal Corps Photographic Center / Army
Pictorial Center at work, in the studio and on location.
A crew
works on the main stage, on a film about courts martial procedures in
1969. The Camera
Branch crew included Hiroshi Kaku, Harry Crider and Web Turner.
Alumni of the
Army Pictorial Center toured the main stage in September 1999 courtesy of
Kaufman
Astoria Studios, as part of the annual APC reunion. The
stage was the television home of The Bill Cosby Show.
APC alumni kept in touch
via a newsletter, "Alumni News," published by Sam Polidoro
and
Les Binger.
Judy Llamas sent photos of
her
father,
Darrell Charles King,
and some of the wartime studio personnel.
Joe Lipkowitz is
featured in assortment of pictures from the opening to the closing of
the Army studio.
John Wayne appeared in an
episode of The Big Picture.
Actor E. G. Marshall
is among the many distinguished talents who performed on the main stage.
Director John Huston, leaning on the hood
of the Jeep, served as a Major during World War II, makes a return
appearance before the Army camera.
Ventriloquist Paul Winchell and his
dummy, Jerry Mahoney, inspect an Army camera with the help of Camera
Branch Chief Joe Lipkowitz.
Updated June 11, 2019.
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