{"id":2861,"date":"2013-12-10T15:23:28","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T23:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.icgmagazine.com\/wordpress\/?p=2861"},"modified":"2014-06-04T00:33:30","modified_gmt":"2014-06-04T00:33:30","slug":"lighting-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.icgmagazine.com\/web\/lighting-the-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Lighting the Way"},"content":{"rendered":"

Family and friends remember Emmy\u00ae Award winning camera operator Bruce Balton<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cI walked onto a television set for the first time, a young, na\u00efve girl from South Jersey, and I thought everyone would know each other except for me,\u201d recalls Mary Balton, the wife of Emmy\u00ae<\/b> Award winning Guild camera operator Rob Balton, and the force behind Balton\u2019s company, Camera Moves. \u201cThis big guy with a booming voice walks up to me and says, \u2018Hi, I am Bruce Balton.\u2019 We chatted a little bit and I felt relieved that I had at least one friend on the set. Little did I know how he would become part of my family years later,\u201d she reflects about marrying his brother.<\/p>\n

That booming voice and open friendliness, along with his impeccable eye behind the camera, is what so many will miss with Bruce Balton\u2019s passing last year. And although Balton is no longer booming through sets and life, his impact and legacy live on.<\/p>\n

Mary Balton isn\u2019t the only one who remembers that voice. \u201cIn an attempt to temper Bruce\u2019s booming voice in the studio while wearing double muff headsets,\u201d recalls production sound crew member Mark Spector, \u201cI would crack open his BP-325 intercom back, crank his sidetone listen gain pot all the way up and his headset mic output gain down to 50 percent. Most of the time it worked, because he was screaming loud to himself. But if he slid one ear of the headset aside, all bets were off.\u201d<\/p>\n

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All bets were often off for those working on the set with Balton, who, they remember, loved to take a dare. \u201cI remember putting on motorcycle helmets and running head on into each other, and realizing afterwards that it wasn\u2019t a good idea,\u201d laughs camera operator Mark Whitman.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe worked for many years at ABC News<\/i> with a terrific director named Roger Goodman,\u201d adds Emmy\u00ae<\/b> winning camera operator Lyn Noland. \u201cOne year, when we were shooting election coverage in an ABC studio, the legendary journalist, David Brinkley, took a fall on the track of Bruce\u2019s jib and fell flat on his face. He was unhurt. Later, Bruce found some yellow tape and made an outline of a man over the track. Goodman, who has a tremendous sense of humor, had us shoot a video with crazy sound, lighting and camera effects, which we named Man Down<\/i>! We all couldn\u2019t stop laughing, and to this day, it remains one of the funniest things we\u2019ve ever done on a set.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Bruce showing Ryan (C) and Dustin (L) crane set-up at the Caribbean Music Awards<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cBruce also loved the swag from shooting concerts,\u201d Noland continues. \u201cWhen we did Woodstock<\/i>, he bought a number of gift items \u2013 shirts, hats, etc. I will always remember Bruce in his Woodstock shirt. When we shot Sessions<\/i>, a wonderful music show, Bruce suddenly appeared wearing various items of Sessions<\/i> clothing. He had a great sense of humor and a real love for music.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSome might call it kleptomania,\u201d Balton\u2019s son Ryan, a jib\/Steadicam operator who recently co-produced an independent documentary, recalled during his father\u2019s eulogy. \u201cCoins, hats, key chains, credentials, autographs, discarded props and signage, beer glasses, beer growlers, beer bottles \u2013 you name it, and he saved it.<\/p>\n

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\u201cBut it wasn\u2019t just to clutter the basement – the museum of Bruce,\u201d Ryan explained. \u201cHe hung onto those things because they were a physical representation of a moment in time, experiencing something extraordinary with people who were extraordinary. Every photo that hung in his office, everything that sat on a shelf in the garage, the guitar picks under the Plexiglas on a bar he had from a Kevin Bacon movie, served as a physical reminder of the story behind it. He was proud of what he did, because of the people he got to do it with and the people who benefited from what he did.\u201d<\/p>\n

Balton\u2019s natural enthusiasm rubbed off on everyone around him. \u201cWorking with him really wasn\u2019t an option,\u201d recalls his other son, Dustin, who has transitioned from camera to engineering for an MEP consultant firm just outside of Philly, although he still does freelance work on weekends and during the holiday season. \u201cFrom a young age he was always bringing us to all sorts of jobs. And that kind of made us feel like celebrities, to experience things that no one we knew ever got the chance to.<\/p>\n

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Bruce (L) with Dustin (R) operating crane in Astoria, NY<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cWe were lucky to have a dad who was such a great teacher,\u201d Dustin continues. \u201cHe was meticulous, but always willing to share his craft. And we had been so immersed in his lifestyle and his work ethic that we couldn\u2019t help but follow in his footsteps. I always wanted to be on my best behavior when I would work with him, to help make his day a little easier. On one of our last jobs together, he told me how proud he was of me and how much he appreciated having me around.\u201d<\/p>\n

Those who say Balton was a tough taskmaster understood that drive came from wanting to be as good at his craft as he could possibly be. \u201cThe work ethic, a creative eye to detail, and interpersonal skills that the business demands of everyone on a production crew, especially in the freelance world, were things that he instilled within my brother and me \u2013 at home and when we\u2019d go to work with him,\u201d remembers Ryan. \u201cWorking crazy hours under demanding conditions, with no guarantee of job security, requires a special, focused, dedicated person \u2013 and Dad was no exception.<\/p>\n

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\u201cGrowing up, we always had cameras around at home. Before our family\u2019s house burned down in 2011, we had, literally, months worth of videotapes. Having that technology around the house made it easy for me to develop a sense of \u2018what looks good\u2019 alongside developing a technical understanding of how it all works.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ryan Balton recalls and how he and his brother used to shoot \u201clittle sketches and news reports\u201d with the family camcorder, once they were old enough to use his gear. \u201cI remember it being a big deal when he started trusting us to shoot things, even just for home movies during the holidays or one of my brother\u2019s band concerts,\u201d Ryan adds. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t just Dad handing off the camera \u2013 it was a man who had an Emmy and shot television events that the entire country was watching.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite the demanding travel schedules (and insane hours) of shooting live television, Balton always made family a priority \u2013 not just because he was supporting everyone but also because he cared deeply for a quality of life. \u201cAfter he had his stroke, that was a big thing,\u201d Ryan says softly. \u201cHe wanted to get back to work not for himself and the satisfaction and fulfillment the job provided him, but to support us.<\/p>\n

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Ryan and Dustin Balton in the studio for the 30th Anniversary of Sesame Street broadcast<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cHe would always share his career with other people,\u201d Ryan continues. \u201cIf he knew a family member or a friend who was a big fan of someone he was shooting, he\u2019d bring them along or get them an autograph or swag from the show. We had autographed photos of the entire cast of Where in the World is Carmen San Diego?<\/i> with a personal message to my brother and me. I remember Sheryl Crow\u2019s drummer showing my brother, who had just started playing the drums in Elementary school, his drum kit at a show at Sony Music Studios. Tickle-Me Elmo wasn\u2019t so impressive to us when we had hung out with the real Elmo and Big Bird on the set of Sesame Street<\/i>.\u201d<\/p>\n

One memorable \u201cBalton Family\u201d job was shooting the 140th<\/sup> Anniversary Reenactment of the Battle of Gettysburg, for a film called Gettysburg: Three Days of Destiny<\/i>. Ryan says it was the first time he and Dustin both worked for their father. \u201cWe helped build a 40-foot jib in the middle of a battlefield that was pretty neat,\u201d he recounts. \u201cWe even got our first screen credit as PAs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bruce\u2019s wife Terry has her own fond memories from the set. \u201cLike the Rolling Stones Steel Wheel Tour<\/i>, when Ryan was an infant on stage at rehearsal in Atlantic City. Or Dustin sitting on the jib platform for the Brittany Spears Concert<\/i>,\u201d she smiles.<\/p>\n

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Terry, Ryan, Dustin, and Bruce at Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego with host Greg Lee<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cOne of Dad\u2019s obsession was lighting,\u201d Ryan recalled in his father\u2019s eulogy. \u201cWhether it was work \u2013 actually rigging lights for a TV shoot, which was what he first started out to do in the business \u2013 or his remote-controlled lighting scheme to illuminate the house or his property, he always lit the way for us.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s one of the reasons why we are collecting money to install a new street light in Milford [PA] in front of the new library in his memory. And, while it may no longer be with solar panel LED lights, he still is lighting the way for us. Lighting the way to the day when we no longer have to keep his greatest hits album on repeat \u2013 but when we can join him for the reunion tour. He has given us his example to lead us [and those he touched] there – to save, to share, to love.\u201d<\/p>\n

You can view Ryan Balton\u2019s eulogy to his father, Bruce, a dedicated Local 600 member since 1999, at YouTube at: www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sXxaqff_Edg&feature=c4-overview&list=UU1vE_GdGfNa_FHGsyDOPMJg<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

By Pauline Rogers. All photos courtesy of the Balton Family<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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