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Rusty Quill presents The Magnus Archives.

Episode 110.

Creature Feature.

Martin Blackwood, archival assistant at the Magnus Institute, recording statement number

0121403, statement of Alexia Crawley, given March 14, 2012.

It's hard to put my relationship with Dexter Banks into words. It was a complicated thing,

built on well over a decade of disdain and interdependence. In many ways I was closer to

him than his wife, not that I ever touched the odious little freak, and while those film

obsessives that insist I directed all his films do us both a disservice, it is true that

without me he would never have reached the fame and high regard he enjoys.

Cinematographer. Such an ornate term yet still so vague. And I wonder if that's the blame

for how overlooked we are as a profession, or even worse that dry title director of photography.

But we are the true artists. A director may quite literally call the shots, but it is

the cinematographer that makes them. We choose the angles, the lighting, pretty much everything

that you see on the screen. If the camera is a brush, then we are the hand, the arm,

the eye, the director is basically just a mouth, making pointless noise while the hand

does the actual work. Almost every famous director that you know with a distinctive visual style

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