Bob Mayer - Warren Jones - WTVJ / MIAMI "Not On The Menu" Dirty Restaurants - 1974

Year two, part one of nightly series on dirty restaurants in Dade and Broward Counties. The series, filmed by famed cinematographer Warran A. (Buck) Jones, resulted in new statewide laws allowing closure of restaurants having unsanitary conditions. The iconic series was featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and used in a then widely used college textbook titled 'Television Newsfilm Techniques.' A project of the Radio Television News Director's Association,' the book unfortunately became obsolete shortly after its publication because of the introduction of video tape. 'Buck' Jones, despite a history of bizarre and stubborn behavior on shoots throughout his career, is still remembered for the creativity he demonstrated when he felt like it. On one particular shoot with Mayer, Jones reportedly refused to shoot an audio segment of sqeaky brakes on a car the two were reporting on. Questioned many times over the years about the incident, Jones was never able to explain his motivation for refusing to shoot a vital scene for the project. The duo is said to have lost an almost certain Emmy award for the auto test series because of that missing shot. Jones and Mayer are said to still be friends to this day, though there is no independent confirmation of that fact. Jones and his wife Susan reside comfortably in Miami-Dade County, though 'Buck,' as his friends still call him, has developed serious memory problems.

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