Writer
Paul Caster, left, confers with Norton S. Parker,
chief of Writers Branch.
Donald Fedynak supplied this
picture in response to questions posed by Major (Retired) Richard
Green, which were
(1) does anyone
have a photo of him and (2) did he serve as commanding officer of
Army Pictorial Center around 1952-1953? Major Green asked about a photo and sounded confident that
Parker had been CO. Green, of the Signal Corps OCS
Association,
signalocsbw36@se.rr.com, also supplied several names of people
who served at the Signal Corps Photographic Center during World War
II.
However, Colonel (Retired) Norman Saunders, who served at APC
from January 1954 through October 1956 as a second lieutenant in
Production Branch's Information Films under Captain Carl Flint,
remembered Parker as a retired colonel who was the head of the
Writers Branch but "to my knowledge he was never CO of the studio."
His basic job was
to contract writers, mostly civilian to various projects. There were
several military writers that worked under Norton Parker, including
Ira Levin, Jack Warner, Jr., and Robert Ervin.
(Posted August 1,
2011; updated February 2, 2012) |
