Eugene Werner ("Gene")

Gene Werner was a Pathe cameraman, who in April 1945 was in the Pathe camera team with Ben Vettrano [qv], Jock Gemmell [qv], Frank Bassill [qv], and George Stevens [qv], which filmed the enthronement of the Archbishop of Canterbury for ‘1945 PILGRIMAGE TO CANTERBURY’ in Pathe Gazette No.45/34. In May 1945 he was part of the camera team that filmed the Victory Thanksgiving Service at St. Paul’s, for inclusion in the ‘FRUITS OF VICTORY’ feature in Pathe Gazette No.45/40. In September 1945 Werner filmed Leon Blum in London, possibly for overseas use, and in the same year he filmed an anti-rationing demonstration in London. Werner was also Pathe’s cameraman for ‘DYNAMOS DRAW WITH RANGERS’ in Pathe Gazette No.45/97 of December 1945, and he then provided ‘OPERATION DEADLIGHT’ - the sinking of captured U-Boats - for Pathe News No.46/1 in January 1946. In November 1947 Werner was apparently in the camera team that filmed ‘THE PRINCESS WEDS’ for Pathe News No.47/94, and the Pathe archive has film of him at the Victoria Memorial ‘adjusting lens of Eyemo on tripod.'

Sources

BUFVC, British Paramount News files, Number 1477 (Pathe rota dopesheets 19/4/1945), Number 1540 (Werner’s rota dopesheet, 28/11/1945), No.1549 (Werner’s rota dopesheet, 11/12/1945).