INDISPUTABLE

Re the photo accompanying the article “A Thing to His Credit” (by Henry Fuhrmann, May 25): To add insult to injury, the man behind the camera is not Chris Nyby, disputed director of “The Thing,” but Russell Harlan, who was the director of photography.

I know, because I was the script supervisor on the picture.

RICHARD KINON

Beverly Hills

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Whether Fuhrmann’s uncle directed this movie is a tiny footnote in cinematic history and would never have been the subject of a lengthy article were it not for the fact that he happens to be a Times editor. What of all the other uncredited directors, producers and writers of films who sit at home, forgotten, in their later years? Who speaks for them?

JAMES MAXWELL

Thousand Oaks