The following year Cronjager left Fox, with him again become a freelance cinematographer [REF].
Cronjager filmed a dozen pictures during the first half of the 1950s, culminating in another Oscar nomination, his seventh and final, for 1954's Beneath the 12-Mile Reef, which featured his underwater photography using the "Aquaflex", a French underwater camera,[REF] the first use of CinemaScope underwater [REF].