Ben F. Reynolds — Little Close-Ups of the A. S. C. (1922) 🇺🇸

Ben F. Reynolds, A. S. C, is the man who photographed “Blind Husbands,” “The Devil’s Pass Key” and last but not least, Foolish Wives.

If you want to know anything about this last much discussed and lavishly exploited picture Ben Reynolds can tell you more about it than any man on earth save probably Von Stroheim [Erich von Stroheim] himself. Only Ben won’t do it, for he belongs to the ancient and honorable Society of Clams — the A. S. C.

It is very likely that all members of the A. S. C. came up in evolution through either the clam or the giraffe family both of which talk not neither do they yelp and the subject of our sketch is one of them.

Benjamin Franklin Reynolds has been hitting the cinematographic ball for about eight years and during that time has produced many notable pictures for Universal where he has had his professional home for the most part.

Before his assignment to Von Stroheim he co-operated with Directors Richard Stanton, Jack Jaccard, Jack Ford, Jack Dillon [Jacques Jaccard | John Ford | John Francis Dillon], Paul Powell, Henry McRae, B. Dowland and others, and since the completion of Foolish Wives he has been associated with Director Paul Scardon, photographing Miss DuPont in “False Kisses,” “Clay,” and others. Mr. Reynolds was over a year in the production of Foolish Wives and this is believed to be a world record for cinematographic work in one picture.

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Collection: American Cinematographer, February 1922

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