- He worked for a while in Argentina where he was credited as Gerardo Huttula.
- To his most impressive works belong the railway disaster in "Damals" (1943), the motor launch cruise of Hans Albers in "Grosse Freiheit Nr. 7" (1944) and especially Hans Albers' ride on the cannon bullet in the star casted movie "Münchhausen" (1943).
- He made first cinematographical experiences in 1922 when his former art teacher produced an animated cartoon and engaged him for the trick camera.
- During the Nazi era he shot a number of ethnographic documentaries and travelogues.
- Gerhard Huttula took over the job of a cinematographer after the war and shot a whole string of fairy tale movies.
- The special effect man and cinematographer Gerhard Huttula made already his decision to become a cinematographer when he finished school.
- He realised more than 1'000 commercial spots between 1958 and 1970 and took on a lectureship at the technical college for optics and photo technique.
- Gerhard Huttula was obliged as a trick cinematographer for the "Ufa-Kopieranstalt" in 1930 where he became acquainted with the newest equipments. His first feature film was the scandal movie "Ekstase/Symphonie der Liebe" (1932), which was forbidden in Germany for the time being because of a short nude appearance of the actress Hedwig Kiesler (the later Hedy Lamarr).
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