Columbia native Lee Dashiell films an interview with Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke of Dillon, S.C. on 60 Minutes in the U.S. Federal Reserve. When South Carolina Director of Photography Lee Dashiell received a phone call from CBS's 60 Minutes a week ago, he was told to pack up his crane and HD camera and head I- 95 North to the nation's capitol. He soon found that he was standing in one of the most powerful institutions in America, the United States Federal Reserve. Even more intriguing was preparing to film an interview with U. S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, the first interview by a sitting Fed chairman in 20 years.

Millions watched this past Sunday night's double segment with Bernanke who tried to shed some optimism on the current economic crisis. While the newspapers and bloggers have spent the week critiquing Bernanke's interview with CBS reporter, Scott Pelley, Dashiell is back at his home near Columbia answering emails from colleagues in the television business.

"I've had friends compliment me on the crane moves during the interview, and some wanting to know if I got the inside scoop on the economy forecast," remarked Dashiell, owner of Osprey HD Production & Post, a television production company located in Mount Pleasant and Columbia.

"I think that it's an honor to be in the group that 60 Minutes counts on for such an important piece. They had told me that they were impressed with work we did during the U.S. Airways crew interview with Katie Couric several weeks ago in Charlotte, N.C. and wanted me on the job for this rare interview."

60 Minutes utilized Osprey HD's CamMate camera crane to cover the massive board room inside the Federal Reserve, as well as the the exteriors and the walking interviews with Pelley and Bernanke.

"When you're inside the Federal Reserve board room swinging around a 20'camera crane there's not a lot of room for error!" says Dashiell as he found his camera floating between a magnificent chandelier and the large oak boardroom table, the same one used for planning sessions during World War II.

"Being inside the Reserve preparing for this interview was very surreal. I realized how important and significant this piece

was, not only for 60 Minutes

but for the country, and we are proud to be a part of it."

Dashiell and his assistant, Greenville native, Eric Carlson, were not the only South Carolinians in the room. Bernanke himself is from Dillon, South Carolina. "I came from Main Street, not Wall Street," Bernanke told correspondent Scott Pelley, while sitting on a bench in downtown Dillon, S.C., where Bernanke grew up and his father owned a drugstore. "This is my background."

"When I met Chairman Bernanke and learned more about his past and South Carolina roots, I was certainly proud to tell him we too were from the Palmetto State. I guess really the most important lesson I got out of the interview though was a feeling that there is a light at the end of the dark economic tunnel."

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