Nelson Tyler

Nelson Tyler (* 1934 in United States ) is an American inventor and developer of special cameras. He has won the Oscar three times .

Live and act

Tyler started out as a camera assistant in the 1950s. 1963 boarded an Alouette helicopter of the French aviation company Sud Aviation with its Super 8 camera as part of an air show . The vibrations in the air made Tyler think about how to attach a camera to get shake-free aerial photographs. This resulted in a special, vibration-free fixation system, which was first used in 1964 in the film adventure Secret Agent Barrett intervenes . This technical invention earned Tyler his first Oscar back in 1965 : "For the design and implementation of an improved helicopter camera system," as the reason stated. In the following decades, Tyler developed a wealth of other camera applications and improvements with his own company, which were also used in the film industry.

As a cameraman for subsequent or special shots, especially those that were taken from the air, he was repeatedly called in. Up until the beginning of the 1970s, Tyler recordings were made for entertainment productions as diverse as the pastoral drama Voice on the Telephone , the adventure film Batman keeps the world in suspense , the Doris Day crime comedy Caprice , the World War II film Tobruk , the western musical Westward the wind is blowing and the anti-war film satire Catch 22 . Tyler's aerial photography technique was also used in the opulently designed Barbra Streisand film musicals Funny Girl , Hello, Dolly! and Funny Lady . In later years Nelson Tyler rarely stepped behind the camera in person. He made a guest appearance in 1979 in the film The Long Death of Stuntman Cameron , in which he can be seen briefly as a man at the camera crane . He then developed the NT-1 rocket-powered backpack that test pilot William P. Suitor flew with during the opening ceremony of the 23rd Olympic Games in Los Angeles in 1984.

Further awards

Nelson Tyler received his second Oscar in 1982 "for the ongoing development and improvement of the Tyler Helicopter motion picture camera platform," as the reason stated. In 2005, Tyler received his third Oscar, this time "for developing the Tyler Gyroplatform Boat Stabilization and Mounting System in the Movie Camera Sector". In 1993 the Society of Operating Cameramen gave him the Technical Achievement Award. In 2004, Tyler received the Fuji Gold Medal for Advances in the Film Industry. In 2009 he received the Life Time Achievement Award from the Society of Operating Cameramen.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dave Hall: Jetpacks: why aren't we all flying to work? . In: The Guardian, May 15, 2018.
2. ↑ BBC News: Rocketman remembers Olympic flight. July 30, 2012, accessed February 14, 2019 . 

Web links

• Nelson Tyler , "Flying," June 1988 Issue, p. 32
• All Tyler patents and inventions on tylermount.com (own website)
• Nelson Tyler in the Internet Movie Database (English)