Luck, once he had taken the mental plunge into the deep waters of so hazardous an enterprise, began to exhibit a most amazing knowledge of the details of picture making.
To save money, he told them, he would be his own camera man.

He could do without a "still" camera, because he would enlarge clippings from the different scenes in the negative instead.

They'd have to manage the range stuff with only one camera, which would mean more work to get the various effects.

But with a telephoto lens and a wide angle lens he could come pretty near putting it over the way he wanted it.

"And there'll be no more blank ammunition, boys," he told them.