Charles Edgar Schoenbaum — Little Close-Ups of the A. S. C. (1922) 🇺🇸

C. Edgar Schoenbaum is one of the youngest members of the A. S. C. but he has a fine record to point to if he wasn’t too modest to do it.

It was about seven years ago that C. E. started to learn the game as an assistant — a good place to start if a boy has the discretion to keep his mouth shut, his ears and eyes open and his mind alert. If with these things be combined a spirit of loyalty, sincerity, respect for one’s teachers and a desire to help and to please, the novice is certain to become the master in time. This was young Schoenbaum.

He graduated to second camera within a few months and in a little over a year was cranking at the premier set up. He had had two years in the lab at negative developing and printing and so was well grounded in fundamentals when the big job came.

Mr. Schoenbaum [Charles Edgar Schoenbaum] has been with Lasky [Jesse L. Lasky] almost ever since he started. He photographed Ethel Clayton in “The Girl Who Came Back,” “Vicky Van” and “Woman’s Weapons;” did a feature with Shirley Mason; “Fires of Faith,” an all star; and then went to Hampton [Benjamin B. Hampton] to photograph Jack Kerrigan [J. Warren Kerrigan] in “The Best Man.” Returning to Lasky, where he has been ever since, he photographed Bryant Washburn in ten straight features followed by the all nbsp;star production “Held by the Enemy.” This was followed by “Miss Hobbes,” featuring Wanda Hawley, another with Washburn and then he was assigned to Wallace Reid for “The Charm School.” He returned to Miss Clayton for “Sham” and since has been with Reid photographing “The Love Special,” “Always Audacious,” and other Reid successes. His latest works are “Too Much Speed,” “The Champion” and “Across the Continent,” the two latter under direction of Phil E. Rosen [Phil Rosen].

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Collection: American Cinematographer, February 1922

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