Just caught an interesting piece on Morning Edition about the Presidential videographer.
Arun Chaudhary spent the entire 2008 campaign and the first two years of the administration filming Obama behind the scenes.
“We are definitely talking about thousands and thousands of hours,” he says, “and that’s just … my camera.”
Chaudhary and his successors have filmed Obama on the basketball court, in the Oval Office and palling around with Elena Kagan seconds before he nominated her to the Supreme Court.
West Wing Week is home to much of the key moments captured by Chaudhary and his team. Here’s a small sample that the NPR piece links to: