News on Screen

In November 1918 the Kinematograph Weekly featured a cartoon of ‘D. Tampieri (Pathe)' in its series ‘With the Camera-Men’ drawn by Walter Evan Davies [qv]. He may have been working on newsreels, but in December 1922 the principal cameramen on the Pathe Pictorial and Eve’s Film Review were named as Ken Gordon [qv], Arthur Fisher [qv], and D. Tampieri, who were said to be expert with all types of camera, including high-speed and microscopic. Tamperi was also credited in the camera teams that filmed ‘THE NATIONAL HUNT STEEPLECHASE’ for Pathe Gazette No.1379, and ‘THE GRAND NATIONAL’ for No.1384, both of March 1927. In the following month he was in the camera team that filmed ‘THE BOAT RACE’ for No.1386, and ‘THE CUP FINAL 1927’ for No.1392. These are his last surviving credits.

Sources

Kinematograph Weekly, 14/11/1918, p.93, ‘With the Camera-Men No.7’: Film Renter (Technical Supplement), 2/12/1922, pp.67-8, ‘The Cameraman and His Work: Real Interest Reels’.