Abe Scholtz — Little Close-Ups of the A. S. C. (1922) 🇺🇸

Abe Scholtz, A. S. C, is one of the veterans of the photographic branch of the motion picture industry and during his seventeen years of service many of the greatest productions of the American screen have passed through his hands.

Most of his experience has been in the laboratory and he has been associated with most of the large studios in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Philadelphia. For several years he was chief of the D. W. Griffith laboratories which means that he must have been a master of his art to please the maestro. His personal research work in the direction of light and color enabled him to produce many novel effects in the Griffith productions.

Mr. Scholtz is one of those students who look upon motion photography as a vast and unexplored realm, the triumphs of which, up to the present time, have been merely the first milestones on a road which leads to infinity. He therefore sees continual progress sometimes marked by radical departures from established practice, sometimes by revolutionary theories and methods, but for the most part by a healthy and rational evolution — an unfoldment brought about by the discovery, through research, of new laws and principles in nature.

Mr. Scholtz has for sometime been associated with the Chester Bennett Productions as chief of their labatory department.

Mr. Scholtz’s more recent œuvres at the camera are The Border Legion, “Desert Gold,” The Cup of Fury, “The Light in the Clearing.”

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Collection: American Cinematographer, February 1922

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