Victor Jurgens was an American film cinematographer and director of documentary, educational, and industrial films for the March of Time series during and after WWII, for Louis de Rochemont, and for the US Information Agency, Jurgens joined March of Time in 1935[1] and was a cameraman for eight years in Mexico and Central America, Latin America (including six months in Brazil, Argentina, and Chile as part of the Rockefeller Committee's Public Information campaign),[2] and Australia for the short series March of Time.
In 1938, he shot footage of activities in the Chinese war zone occupied by Japan has been granted March of Time after six months’ negotiations.
Jurgens spent more than two years and traveled more than 30,000 miles in the Far East, producing about 40,000 feet of footage for March of Time's Battlefields of the Pacific.
[8] Jurgens was one of only a handful of experienced newsreel cameramen to film the atom bomb experiment in order to have high-quality footage.
[11] He was commissioned by the American Museum of Natural History to make films about northwestern Guatemala and the Xingu region of Brazil, but it is not clear if he completed them.