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Discovery Channel – GTT – and Manatees

While documenting the Florida Manatees for the Discovery Channel, Orlando DP, Dan Beckmann, was able to travel from the Governor’s office in Tallahassee, through the various waterways of south Florida. The hour-long special showcased the endagered species, boaters neglect, and how new laws are helping save one of Florida’s most treasured species!...

History Channel Goes Back In Time With B26 Marauder and F-86 Airplanes

Go To Team‘s Orlando Director of Photography, Dan Beckmann, spent the weekend inside one of World War II’s most successful aircraft – the B-26 Marauder. With only a handful left in the world, the Marauder was the first US medium bomber used in the Pacific during World War II.  And according to the United States […]...

Beckmann’s Documentary Across Italy

Go To Team’s Orlando DP, Dan Beckmann, and Executive Producer, Sue Stauffer, spent two weeks crisscrossing Italy for an international documentary on daily life throughout the country. Their job – to travel across Rome, Florence, Pisa, Sienna, Bologna, and Venice – and capture the daily goings-on amidst the Italian culture. From wine in the Chianti […]...

Beckmann, Brokaw, and Bush on Air Force One

Orlando DP, Dan Beckmann, hopped a ride on board Air Force One with President George W. Bush and NBC News Anchor, Tom Brokaw. During the presidential campaign of 2004, Brokaw and Beckmann tagged along with the President – documenting a behind the scenes look of life on the campaign trail. Beckmann also spent time with […]...

Orlando DP at the Winter Games in Torino

Dan Beckmann, Go To Team’s Orlando DP, spent over a month in Torino, Italy with NBC News for the 2006 Olympics. Dan, who speaks Italian (as well as Hebrew and Arabic), shot a vairety of stories for the Today Show, MSNBC, Dateline, and Nightly News with Brian Williams....

Beckmann in the West Bank with Arafat

Orlando DP, Dan Beckmann, spent time with Yaser Arafat in the West Bank town of Ramallah. Covering the story for NBC News, Dan was able to capture the Palestinian leader with unfettered acess. During the coverage, just over the walls of Arafat’s headquarters, constant fighting continued to break out on a daily basis – Beckmann […]...

Beckmann in Belfast

Dan Beckmann and Sue Stauffer went on location for a documentary in Belfast.  Covering the Orangemen Parade through the streets of Northern Ireland, Beckmann and Stauffer were able to capture daily life in the troubled city.  Walls have divided the Catholics and the Protestants for decades.  And while barriers have been built around both neighborhoods, […]...

On the set for the Children’s Miracle Network

Orlando DP, Dan Beckmann, helped cover the 3 day Children’s Miracle Network event – live from Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida. Celebrities from Larry King, to football great Steve Young, and Olympic champion Mary Lou Retton were on hand to lend their support for the entire event. Beckmann coordinated, not only the live set, […]...

On location with Nigel Marvin’s Wild, Wild, World

Orlando DP, Dan Beckmann, helped Discovery Channel’s Nigel Marvin capture some incredible behind-the-scenes material for his show, Nigel Marvin’s Wild, Wild, World. While on location at Sea World in Orlando, Florida, Beckmann and his crew learned all about the different species of penguin, whales, sharks, and of course – crocs! Nigel submerged himself in a […]...

On board the U.S.S. Nassau – Go To Team covers U.S. troops returning home from Iraq

Go To Team DP’s, Dan Beckmann and Skip Clark, helped NBC News cover the return of U.S. Troops from deployment in Iraq. For the men and women of the U.S.S. Nassau, it was a welcome site to see the shore line of the United States after an 18 month deployment in the Middle East! After […]...

Ooohhh…. Aaaaahhhhhh…..

Go To Team camera crew Skip Clark and Rene Cusson made their way to Daytona Beach, Florida this holiday weekend. Amidst the July 4th fireworks above the crowded beach were even more bangs and booms lighting up the Daytona International Speedway. NASCAR held it’s Coke Zero 400, covered live by TNT, and made to look […]...

Raleigh Crew Ride with a Hall of Famer

Go To Team’s Raleigh crew headed down US1 to Southern Pines NC to meet up with recent olympic hall of fame nominee equestrian J. Michael Plumb. Plumb’s first Olympic Games experience took place in 1960, when he was 20 years old. He was named to every Olympic three-day team from that Games through 1984, earning […]...