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“Don Cole, Technicolor Photographer at Complex 37, CKMTA.
4/27/64”
I think Mr. Cole is using a Graflex Super Speed Graphic camera.
Speaking of Mr. Cole, not that it really matters - to anyone but me - but I really have to pat myself, Mr. Cole, even the NASA caption writer on the back here.
If not for Mr. Cole's name being referenced in the caption, my Herculean effort at coaxing it out of the faded text, to of course Mr. Cole leaving a delightful online footprint, I'd continue to be clueless and a little poorer for it.
Pertinent to this photograph & the theme of my interests, per Mr. Cole's LinkedIn profile, under "Experience":
(1) Camera Operator, Hollywood Cal. (2) Photo lab tech & photographer, Cape Canaveral, Fla.
- Continental Graphics Inc. (originally Economy Blueprint & Supply Co.)
- 1961 - 1962 · 1 yr: (1) Hollywood, Calif. (2) Cape Canaveral, Fla. NASA
- This company received the first NASA photo and printing services contract at Cape Canaveral, in 1961, and I was transferred from Hollywood, Calif. to Cape Canaveral, Fla. to help service this contract. We worked (reproduction services for NASA) first located in a steel Quonset hut directly across from Hanger 'S' and the Project Mercury astronauts. Later, the photo contract was awarded to Technicolor Corp (Hollywood, London, Rome) wherein I was re-hired by Technicolor Corp. having already been on the job with Continental Graphics (Economy Blueprint & Supply).
Followed by:
“NASA Spacecraft Photographer
- Technicolor
- 1962 - 1970 · 8 yrs
- Cape Canaveral, Fla.
- Photographer for NASA, Still & Motion Pictures, during President Kennedy's 'Race to the Moon' years.”
Followed by:
Owner
- Don Cole Photo Studios & Color Lab
- 1970 - 1980 · 10 yrs
6200-6210 N. Atlantic Ave., Cape Canaveral, Fla.
- Servicing NASA contractors and general public, photography of all sorts. (Also a small branch in Searstown Mall, Titusville, Fla.)
Further, from a July 12, 2009 blog entry - YES blog - by Mr. Cole (likely in his 70’s then), with the heading "About the Apollo 1 Launch Pad Fire”:
"The term “launch pad fire” is true, but to me it is not very descriptive of what actually happened on that fatal NASA preflight test, that late afternoon at LC-34 (Launch Complex 34), Jan 27, 1967. As the only photographer for NASA, at the time specifically assigned to LC-34, including my own desk inside the blockhouse, I was only moments away from a NASA assignment to stay on over-time to take motion picture documentation of that test in progress. I was to be filming the three astronauts, (Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee), up on the service structure, at the Command Module. At the last minute, I was told to scrub (cancel) my Job Order (assignment,) because they couldn’t get enough light up there. Hence, the test was not documented on film."
And from a January 28, 2011 blog, in response to a USA Today article entitled “Where were you when man first walked on the moon?”:
"Well, as NASA Spacecraft Photographer, I had been assigned, during the countdown to launch, to take photographs inside the Spacecraft, Command Module, of all the panels and switch positions; shortly before the Astronauts entered in. By the time they actually landed on the moon, I was traveling across country on the start of my vacation. I don’t think even my own family believed where I had just came from."
Still further, from his blog, his autobiographical information:
Gender:
Male
Industry:
Arts
Occupation:
Cartoonist
Location:
Dover, NJ, United States
Introduction:
Single, self employed, Cartoonist. Published in many national magazines. Cartoon Caricature Artist, Cartoon Animator, Alvin & "The Chipmunks Great Adventure" movie, plus various TV shows and commercials. Past Graduate and Instructor at the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon & Graphic Art, Dover NJ, 3-yr full time accredited art school. Ex-NASA Photographer, Spacecraft Photographer, Cape Canaveral, Kennedy Space Center, during 1960's 10-year race to the moon. Past owner of Don Cole Photo Studio and Color Lab, Cape Canaveral, Fla. and at Searstown Mall, Titusville, FL, during the 1970's. USN Photographer, 1957-1961.
Interests:
Cartooning, Drawing, Caricatures, Art, Cartoons, Cartoon Animation, People Watching, Computer, Photography, Space, Science, Bible Studies, Truth Graphics, Writing
Favorite Movies:
"The Chipmunk Adventure, " Alvin & the Chipmunks, 1987 --because I did some Animation on it. :)
Favorite Music:
Quiet :) ...50's and 60's had the best music. The oldies, any music where the sounds are pleasing to the ears, inspiring, and the words understandable, inducing warm and good feelings and emotions.
Favorite Books:
Bible. Books on Drawing & Cartooning. Books illuminating the beauty and wonder of God's creation. History and Science reference books.
In my world, a huge WIN.
SA-6:
nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1964...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=w75EZwZuIQ8&feature=youtu.be
Credit: Retro Space HD/YouTube
Outstanding, although no activity since ~2012 leads to the inevitable conclusion & sadly, all too often, likely reality:
m.facebook.com/DonColeCartoons/
Credit: Facebook
www.linkedin.com/in/donald-cole-80066919/
Credit: LinkedIn
sa06 (AS-101)_v_bw_o_n (KSC 64-11917)
“Don Cole, Technicolor Photographer at Complex 37, CKMTA.
4/27/64”
I think Mr. Cole is using a Graflex Super Speed Graphic camera.
Speaking of Mr. Cole, not that it really matters - to anyone but me - but I really have to pat myself, Mr. Cole, even the NASA caption writer on the back here.
If not for Mr. Cole's name being referenced in the caption, my Herculean effort at coaxing it out of the faded text, to of course Mr. Cole leaving a delightful online footprint, I'd continue to be clueless and a little poorer for it.
Pertinent to this photograph & the theme of my interests, per Mr. Cole's LinkedIn profile, under "Experience":
(1) Camera Operator, Hollywood Cal. (2) Photo lab tech & photographer, Cape Canaveral, Fla.
- Continental Graphics Inc. (originally Economy Blueprint & Supply Co.)
- 1961 - 1962 · 1 yr: (1) Hollywood, Calif. (2) Cape Canaveral, Fla. NASA
- This company received the first NASA photo and printing services contract at Cape Canaveral, in 1961, and I was transferred from Hollywood, Calif. to Cape Canaveral, Fla. to help service this contract. We worked (reproduction services for NASA) first located in a steel Quonset hut directly across from Hanger 'S' and the Project Mercury astronauts. Later, the photo contract was awarded to Technicolor Corp (Hollywood, London, Rome) wherein I was re-hired by Technicolor Corp. having already been on the job with Continental Graphics (Economy Blueprint & Supply).
Followed by:
“NASA Spacecraft Photographer
- Technicolor
- 1962 - 1970 · 8 yrs
- Cape Canaveral, Fla.
- Photographer for NASA, Still & Motion Pictures, during President Kennedy's 'Race to the Moon' years.”
Followed by:
Owner
- Don Cole Photo Studios & Color Lab
- 1970 - 1980 · 10 yrs
6200-6210 N. Atlantic Ave., Cape Canaveral, Fla.
- Servicing NASA contractors and general public, photography of all sorts. (Also a small branch in Searstown Mall, Titusville, Fla.)
Further, from a July 12, 2009 blog entry - YES blog - by Mr. Cole (likely in his 70’s then), with the heading "About the Apollo 1 Launch Pad Fire”:
"The term “launch pad fire” is true, but to me it is not very descriptive of what actually happened on that fatal NASA preflight test, that late afternoon at LC-34 (Launch Complex 34), Jan 27, 1967. As the only photographer for NASA, at the time specifically assigned to LC-34, including my own desk inside the blockhouse, I was only moments away from a NASA assignment to stay on over-time to take motion picture documentation of that test in progress. I was to be filming the three astronauts, (Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee), up on the service structure, at the Command Module. At the last minute, I was told to scrub (cancel) my Job Order (assignment,) because they couldn’t get enough light up there. Hence, the test was not documented on film."
And from a January 28, 2011 blog, in response to a USA Today article entitled “Where were you when man first walked on the moon?”:
"Well, as NASA Spacecraft Photographer, I had been assigned, during the countdown to launch, to take photographs inside the Spacecraft, Command Module, of all the panels and switch positions; shortly before the Astronauts entered in. By the time they actually landed on the moon, I was traveling across country on the start of my vacation. I don’t think even my own family believed where I had just came from."
Still further, from his blog, his autobiographical information:
Gender:
Male
Industry:
Arts
Occupation:
Cartoonist
Location:
Dover, NJ, United States
Introduction:
Single, self employed, Cartoonist. Published in many national magazines. Cartoon Caricature Artist, Cartoon Animator, Alvin & "The Chipmunks Great Adventure" movie, plus various TV shows and commercials. Past Graduate and Instructor at the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon & Graphic Art, Dover NJ, 3-yr full time accredited art school. Ex-NASA Photographer, Spacecraft Photographer, Cape Canaveral, Kennedy Space Center, during 1960's 10-year race to the moon. Past owner of Don Cole Photo Studio and Color Lab, Cape Canaveral, Fla. and at Searstown Mall, Titusville, FL, during the 1970's. USN Photographer, 1957-1961.
Interests:
Cartooning, Drawing, Caricatures, Art, Cartoons, Cartoon Animation, People Watching, Computer, Photography, Space, Science, Bible Studies, Truth Graphics, Writing
Favorite Movies:
"The Chipmunk Adventure, " Alvin & the Chipmunks, 1987 --because I did some Animation on it. :)
Favorite Music:
Quiet :) ...50's and 60's had the best music. The oldies, any music where the sounds are pleasing to the ears, inspiring, and the words understandable, inducing warm and good feelings and emotions.
Favorite Books:
Bible. Books on Drawing & Cartooning. Books illuminating the beauty and wonder of God's creation. History and Science reference books.
In my world, a huge WIN.
SA-6:
nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1964...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=w75EZwZuIQ8&feature=youtu.be
Credit: Retro Space HD/YouTube
Outstanding, although no activity since ~2012 leads to the inevitable conclusion & sadly, all too often, likely reality:
m.facebook.com/DonColeCartoons/
Credit: Facebook
www.linkedin.com/in/donald-cole-80066919/
Credit: LinkedIn