Joseph_E._Robbins

Joseph E. Robbins

Joseph E. Robbins

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For other people named Joseph Robbins, see Joseph Robbins (disambiguation).

Joseph E. Robbins (11 June 1901 - 7 July 1989) was an American film technician, who received three Academy Awards for Technical Achievement.

Life

In the late 1920s Robbins was responsible for the car pool of Paramount Pictures.[1]

Robbins later worked as film technician for Paramount Pictures and at the 10th Academy Awards he was awarded his first Oscar for Technical Achievement, which he received for "an exceptional application of acoustic principles to the sound proofing of gasoline generators and water pumps".[2]

At the 12th Academy Awards he, Farciot Edouart and William Rudolph were awarded an Oscar, again for Technical Achievement, this time for "the design and construction of a quiet portable treadmill" .[3]

He was awarded his third Oscar for Technical Achievement at the 17th Academy Awards, together with Russell Brown and Ray Hinsdale for "the development and production use of the Paramount floating hydraulic boat rocker".[4]

Awards

Work

  • Quiet Gasoline Engine Propelled Apparatus. SAE Technical Paper 400032, 1940, doi:10.4271/400032.

References

  1. [1]
    Herbert Coleman: The Man Who Knew Hitchcock: A Hollywood Memoir. Lanham, Maryland, 2007, p. 18.
  2. [2]
    Academy Awards 1938
  3. [3]
    Academy Awards 1940
  4. [4]
    Academy Awards 1945
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