![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Due to initial difficulties in joining the union, he first worked on commercials and TV programs, as well as low-budget and independent film productions. Following his two-year military service, Burum returned to California. After he was drafted in 1965, Burum shot training films for the U.S. His first professional experience of working behind the camera came in 1964 on the wildlife television series, The NBC Wonderful World of Color, produced for the Disney Studios. During this period of time, he also became a teaching assistant for Charles Clarke’s and Stanley Kramer’s classes. Burum photographed about fifty student films, shot mainly in black-and-white. A committed and hard-working student, Stephen H. Clarke, ASC (remembered for such films as Moontide, Hello Frisco, Hello, and Carousel), and one of the very first female directors in the history of cinema, Dorothy Arzner, whose films included Working Girls, The Bride Wore Red, or Dance, Girl, Dance. As a teenager, he shot his first films with Kodak Brownie 8mm camera loaned from a photography shop owned by his best friend’s father.īurum’s first career steps date to the early 1960s and the UCLA School of Theatre, Film and Television in Los Angeles, where he was guided by some of the most prominent film industry professionals, including cinematographer Charles G. Despite his family’s journalistic roots, Burum chose to pursue his interests in photography and cinema. His mother’s side of the family owned ‘The Dinuba Sentinel’, another newspaper published in the same town. His father worked as a distribution manager for the ‘Visalia Times Delta’, and the grandmother on his father’s side was a journalist at ‘The Alta Advocate’. Burum was born in November of 1939 in Visalia, a small California town near Fresno. ![]() A regular collaborator of Brian De Palma during the last quarter of the twentieth century, Burum lensed several unforgettable feature films that are still widely recognized all over the world. Stephen Henry Burum, ASC is one of the foremost American cinematographers, who worked during the 1980s on a number of visually impressive films that shaped the cinematic tendencies of the decade. BURUM WITH EnergaCAMERIMAGE LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD ![]()
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