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DOT Code: 239.382-010

Industry: print. & pub.
Alternate Titles: telephoto operator

Operates news wirephoto machine to transmit syndicated news photographs over telecommunication wires to newspapers and magazines: Inserts developed photographic print in camera chamber equipped with electric eye which scans and transmits photographs over transcontinental telephone or telegraph wires. Adjusts controls to coordinate machine processes involving detecting, screening, and converting photographic highlights and shadows into sound signals for wire transmission. May operate machine to receive news photographs. May develop film and print positives.

GOE: 05.10.05 STRENGTH: S GED: R4 M2 L3 SVP: 5 DLU: 77