Charles G. Clarke(1899-1983)

In 1928 he and a crew were sent to Alaska to shoot some background footage for a film to be made about Eskimos. During their stay they became lost on the Arctic tundra and wandered with little food and water for ten days before they were finally spotted by a rescue plane. They was unable to sleep during that period, because of snow blindness and the fear that if they went to sleep they would freeze to death, and in his autobiography he stated that the experience so unnerved him that for the rest of his life he was never able to get a good night's sleep.

[about Will Rogers, whom Clarke worked with on several pictures] He had no respect for the marks on the floor, which are placed there as guides to proper lighting and focusing. The cinematographer, when doing a scene with Rogers, just had to hope for the best, for we never knew where he would land. He never said the same lines or did the same bit of business from take to take to take. Some of the older stage actors might have felt this was lack of discipline, but Will Rogers had a gift that few others possess: he had an uncanny wit and a sense of what amused people. He never pretended to be an actor and perhaps this was his greatest asset.