Carl W. Hauge

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Carl W. Hauge (born November 12, 1908 in Washington state , United States , † November 29, 1998 in Shelton (Washington) , USA) was an Oscar- winning film technician.

Life

Hauge grew up in Grays Harbor , Washington State, and stayed there at least until the 1930s. After moving to Los Angeles and completing his technical training, he entered the film business and eventually became an employee in the technology development department of Consolidated Film Industries . There, together with his company colleague Edward H. Reichard , he made groundbreaking technical developments. In 1965, Hauge received the Technology Oscar together with Reichard for, as the reason stated, "the design of a Proximity Cue Detector and its application to motion picture printers". During the same event, he, Reichard and Leonard L. Sokolow received the Scientific and Engineering Award , for achievements in development, “for the design and application to motion picture laboratory practice of a Stroboscopic Scene Tester for color and black-and-white film” , Research and manufacturing of film optics. In 1969 Hauge again received another Oscar for technical merits together with Reichard "for engineering an automatic exposure control for printing-machine lamps".

After the end of his professional life, Carl Hauge returned to Washington, where he died 17 days after his 90th birthday.

Individual evidence

  1. life data on deathfigures.com
  2. Carl W. Hauge on ancestry.com
  3. cf. 1930 census
  4. ^ Hauge on books.google.de