Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Weegee" in English language version.
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Bernzy himself seems to be based on the real-life figure of Arthur Fellig, who, under the name Weegee, created some of the most startling and vivid photographs to come out of the urban maelstrom.
The legendary street photographer Arthur 'Weegee' Fellig is often credited with first coining the phrase 'f/8 and be there.'
Written and directed by Howard Franklin, The Public Eye is a film very loosely based on the life of tabloid photographer, Arthur Fellig, better known as Weegee. Franklin apparently could not obtain the rights to Weegee's story, so he wrote a fictionalized tale about a cigar smoking New York City tabloid photographer who had access to a police radio which always made him first on the scene. In the film, the character is called Leon Bernstein or Bernzy or, as his byline reads, The Great Bernzini.
