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

One would think that a man with twenty years’ experience to his credit as a cinematographer in the great motion picture industry could almost write a history of it off hand, but some cameramen, like some steers, are so shy and skittish that they must be roped, hog-tied and branded before they will stand long enough to be communicated with.

Such is L. Dal Clawson, A. S. C., one of the most popular members of the Society and for years one of America’s foremost cameramasters. L. Dal is simply too busy to talk about himself and so far as he is concerned the biographer can go jump in the lake, therefore, this stalling to fill space when, if Mr. Clawson had only been a bit more communicative this column would have been smeared all over with an interesting story about a real man, a first rate cameraman and an artist in his line.

Mr. Clawson wrote his name high in cinematographic annals when he filmed “The Hypocrites” for Lois Weber several years ago, and since then he has scored many successes, among them being “The Woman He Married,” “The Oath,” “What Do Men Want,” and “For Husbands Only,” by Lois Weber; “Back to God’s Country,” a David Hartford production, etc.

Mr. Clawson is now with Anita Stewart, under direction of Fred Niblo, at the Louis B. Mayer Studio.

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Collection: American Cinematographer, February 1922

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