Alois G. Heimerl — Little Close-Ups of the A. S. C. (1922) 🇺🇸

Alois G. Heimerl, A. S. C, has specialized in laboratory work, having had fifteen years’ experience, ten years of it running concurrently with work at the camera. Mr. Heimerl began his professional career at St. Louis, Missouri, with the St. Louis Motion Picture Company, but remained only a short time going thence to Universal where, under the direction of Allan Dwan, he photographed J. Warren Kerrigan in upwards of fifty feature pictures.

These were the days when Mr. Kerrigan was the star par excellence of the pictures and when the cinema was in the first flush of its popularity. When the American Film Company was organized at Chicago in 1913, Mr. Heimerl joined the organization as manager of the laboratory and director of photography at their Santa Barbara studio, which position he has held ever since and which speaks pretty well for his sticking abilities.

At the Flying A, as the American was called, Mr. Heimerl had an important part in developing such stars as Gail Kane, Margarita Fischer, Mary Miles Minter, Charlotte Walker, Jackie Saunders, William Russell, Wallace Reid, Henry B. Walthall, and a score of other well known artists of the screen.

Mr. Heimerl is a deep student of the science and art of photography in all of its branches and he sees in the future development of the cinema possibilities that have not yet been touched by the researches of its greatest masters, and in this future development he hopes to play an important part.

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Collection: American Cinematographer, February 1922

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