Lights! Camera! Action! Notice which one comes first? Without the lights, the other two just don’t work as well. This memoir provides an insider’s look at the lighting industry in television and movies and how it evolved during the author’s four decades working behind the scenes during the second golden age of movies in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Effective lighting sets a mood, can define a character, can illuminate or obscure the details that bring life and color to film. This book chronicles the author’s career working with award winning cinematographers such as Sven Nykvist, Vilmos Zsigmond and Laszlo Kovacs and his legendary lighting gaffer, Richmond “Aggie” Aguilar. It provides fascinating behind-the-scenes stories from his work on blockbuster movies like Deliverance, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Paper Moon and On Golden Pond, and how lighting techniques and equipment have evolved. Along with personal tales of hazardous work conditions and being discriminated against as Hollywood outsiders on film locations, this book is jam-packed with photos taken on-set of some of the biggest movies ever made. From the old arc lamps of the 1930s to today’s LEDs, you’ll look at film in a whole new light!