Charles J. Stumar — Little Close-Ups of the A. S. C. (1922) 🇺🇸
During his more than eleven years of active service as a cinematographer Charles Stumar, A. S. C, has been about as busy as the busiest of them.
Beginning in America with the old New York Motion Picture Company his first star was Dorothy Dalton in “Chicken Casey.” Then after one more with Miss Dalton he was assigned to Bessie Barriscale for five-reel productions and finished with this company after photographing Olive Thomas in “Madcap Madge,” her first starring picture.
Triangle next called Mr. Stumar and there he photographed Alma Rubens in “Regeneration” and one other feature; Walt Whitman in “The Tarheel Warrior” and Margery Wilson in “Without Honor.”
Mr. Stumar then signed with Thos. H. Ince for three pictures featuring Enid Bennett, following the completion of which he went to Paralta–Brunton and did “Springtime” with Henry Walthall and “A Dollar Bid,” with Jack Kerrigan [Thomas H. Ince | Henry B. Walthall | J. Warren Kerrigan].
He followed Kerrigan to J. D. Hampton and photographed him in six straight features among the best of this star’s career. About this time J. Parker Reed [J. Parker Read Jr.] began producing at the Ince Studios and Mr. Stumar went back to the old homestead as chief cinematographer for Reed. He photographed Louise Glaum in all her Reed productions. They were all seven reel specials and all of them attracted great attention, especially “Sahara,” Sex, The Leopard Woman. After finishing the eight Glaum Pictures he signed with Ince and filmed What’s Your Husband Doing? with Douglas MacLean; Lying Lips with Florence Vidor and House Peters; and “Lucky Damage” with Milton Sills and House Peters, not yet released.
Mr. Stumar [Charles J. Stumar] is at present employed on another J. Parker Reed special entitled “Pawned” with an all star cast. The list of his works here does not contain a number of pictures made in the east and several made in Europe before he joined Lubin [Siegmund Lubin].
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Collection: American Cinematographer, February 1922
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