Joseph E. Robbins
Joseph "Joe" E. Robbins († August 8, 1989 ) was an American film technician three times with the Oscar for technical merit ( Technical Achievement Award) was awarded.
Life
End of the 1920 Robbins was head of the fleet of Paramount Pictures.
Robbins worked as a film technician for Paramount Pictures and was at the Academy Awards in 1938 for the first time won the Oscar for technical merit, namely " an extraordinary application of acoustic principles for sound insulation of gasoline generators and water pumps " ( one for on exceptional application of acoustic principles to the sound proofing of gasoline generators and water pumps' ).
In 1940 he was together with Farciot Edouart and William Rudolph "for the design and construction of a noiseless portable treadmill " (, For the design and construction of a quiet portable treadmill ') award for the second time with the Oscar for technical merit.
His third and final Technical Achievement Award was given Robbins at the Academy Awards in 1945 along with Russell Brown and Ray Hinsdale "for the development and productive use of the floating hydraulic boat - rocker of Paramount Pictures ' (' For the development and production use of the Paramount floating hydraulic boat rocker ').