Biography
Elmer G. Dyer was an American cinematographer active from the mid-1910s to 1940s. He specialized in aerial photography and aerial stock shots and was closely associated with stunt pilot Paul Mantz for many years. Dyer received an Academy Award nomination in cinematography for AIR FORCE (1943). During World War II, Dyer served in the Army's First Motion Picture Unit and shot aerial footage for training films. Dyer began his own stock-shot library in the 1940s and in later years concentrated his energies on this business.
