Gerhard Fromm

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Gerhard Fromm (born March 8, 1932 in Berlin ) is a German cameraman , film technician and specialist author.

Career

Gerhard Fromm is the son of a grocer and coffee roaster from Berlin-Karlshorst. He learned the trade in his father's business. Out of interest in photography, he switched to a photo shop as a specialist salesperson. In DEFA -Kopierwerk Koepenick learned Fromm Farbfotolaborant, film technicians and projectionists. In 1956 he went to the Arnold & Richter factory in Munich to work as a light determiner . A producer there recruited him in the early 1960s to work as a camera assistant and color film supervisor for his first major color film.

Gerhard Fromm worked as a swivel operator for the 65mm production Onkel Toms Hütte (1965) under cameraman Heinz Hölscher and was Sven Nykvist's assistant on several large-scale productions . As a cameraman he has made many feature films, documentaries and television films. Gerhard Fromm is an extraordinary member of the Cinematography Association (BVK).

Film technology Fromm

Because driving shots from a car with the Arriflex 35 film camera were impossible due to the high cassette, Gerhard Fromm built an action cassette at the end of the 1960s. With his company Filmtechnik Fromm he then successfully produced this cassette in series for the film formats 35mm and 16mm. Other products from the company were rain deflectors, helicopter mounts, underwater housings and custom-made products. The company was active from 1970 to 2008 and had stands at the Photokina in Cologne.

Specialist author

From the mid-1960s, Gerhard Fromm worked as a specialist author for the magazine “Der Deutsche Kameramann”, today Film & TV Kameramann . In 1974 he began a series of collection sheets for film cameras with the Bolex 16 Pro, in which the practitioner explains the functionality and operation. Around 50 cameras were described in the collection sheets up to the presentation of the last professional film camera Arriflex 416 in 2006. His expertise was also in demand with other specialist magazines such as “Großformat”, “Colorfilm”, Schmalfilm and “Camera Magazin”.

Filmography (selection)

as DoP cinema

as DoP television

as swivel operator, second unit for cinema

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personal data
SURNAME Fromm, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cameraman, film technician and specialist author
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin