The Remembrance by the cinematographers grandnephew.When I was eight years old, I was already aware of the importance of one relative whod managed to break free from our ostensibly dysfunctional family mold. Most of my immediate and extended family was, and still is, situated around central and eastern Washington state, but even at an early age I was told about Uncle Jimmies film career in California. Not a few times when a movie was playing on television, it was pointed out to me that Jimmie had worked on it. My father had always promised me that someday we would go to California to see my greatuncle Jimmie. I eagerly awaited that day, until the phone rang in my home in Yakima on July 12, 1976. The voice on the other end of the line gave us the news that Uncle Jimmie as everyone called him had died. I remember being intensely disappointed, for now I would never meet the largerthanlife uncle for whom I was given my middle name. I would, however, develop a curiosity for the art of filmmaking and, not surprisingly, an interest in James Wong Howes work in particular.

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