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While the camera lenses were now available, the process required projection lenses as well. Gottschalk teamed up with several colleagues and began offering projection lenses under the name
Panavision, which used prismatic rather than cylindrical optics. This led to a successful expansion into lenses
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On June 3, 1982 at 9 a.m., police received a phone call from
Gottschalk's partner of 2 years, Laos "Ronnie" Chuman. Police would find Gottschalk's badly beaten body sprawled out in the master bedroom of his Bel-Air mansion. Chuman, after making conflicting statements during police questioning,
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Born to Gustav and Anna
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for his lenses and other camera equipment, including body-mounted support apparatuses, vibration dampeners, and camera harnesses. Six additional patents would be granted after his death, the last coming in May 1986. All but three of his inventions are assigned to
Panavision.
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distributor, Gottschalk began working on developing an underwater camera. This would lead to
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