Joseph E. Robbins

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Joseph "Joe" E. Robbins (born June 11, 1901 in Olathe , Johnson County , Kansas , United States ; † July 21, 1989 in Woodland Hills , Los Angeles County , California , United States) was an American film technician who three times with the Oscar for technical merit ( technical Achievement Award was awarded).

Life

In the late 1920s, Robbins was the fleet manager for Paramount Pictures .

Robbins worked as a film technician for Paramount Pictures and was awarded the Oscar for technical merit for the first time at the 1938 Academy Awards , namely "for an exceptional application of acoustic principles for soundproofing gasoline generators and water pumps" ('for an exceptional application of acoustic principles to the sound proofing of gasoline generators and water pumps').

In 1940 he was awarded the Oscar for technical merit for the second time together with Farciot Edouart and William Rudolph “for the design and construction of a quiet portable treadmill”.

Robbins received his third and final Technical Achievement Award at the Academy Awards in 1945 together with Russ Brown and Ray Hinsdale “for the development and productive use of the floating hydraulic ship seesaw from Paramount Pictures” (“For the development and production use of the Paramount floating hydraulic boat rocker ').

Awards

  • 1938 : Oscar for technical merit ( Academy Technical Achievement Award )
  • 1940 : Oscar for technical merit ( Academy Technical Achievement Award )
  • 1945 : Oscar for technical merit ( Academy Technical Achievement Award )

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  • Quiet Gasoline Engine Propelled Apparatus. SAE Technical Paper 400032, 1940, doi : 10.4271 / 400032 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joseph "Joe" E. Robbins on the US Social Security Death Register (SSDI), accessed May 14, 2017
  2. ↑ The Official Academy Awards Database  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at oscars.org, accessed February 16, 2014@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / awardsdatabase.oscars.org  
  3. ^ Herbert Coleman : The Man Who Knew Hitchcock: A Hollywood Memoir. Lanham, Maryland 2007, p. 18.
  4. ^ Academy Awards 1938
  5. ^ Academy Awards 1940
  6. ^ Academy Awards 1945
personal data
SURNAME Robbins, Joseph E.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Robbins, Joe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film technician
DATE OF BIRTH June 11, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Olathe , Johnson County , Kansas , United States
DATE OF DEATH July 21, 1989
Place of death Woodland Hills , Los Angeles County , California , United States