Interview with Neil Davis at Tim Bowden's Film 4 Takes 4 & 5 (Frontline out takes)

Neil Davis as a cameraman correspondent explains that the experience of combat is to see a person stripped of all pretensions and their reactions when their and others lives are on the line. Combat fosters the development of a very close understanding and camaraderie. Everyone is the supreme optimist as it is always someone else that gets killed. How looking through the camera view finder can detach the cameraman from what is happening around him. The view finder gives the impression that you are watching a television show in part explains why the cameraman can keep filming under heavy fire. Davis also attributes this to training and that a well trained news cameraman will "get the film and keep it rolling no matter what happens". Davis relates the story in detail of a Vietnamese grenade thrower who filmed dying after he was hit by automatic fire. Why he would continue to risk his life to film in combat situations - the satisfaction of what he achieved and to the truth and the story.