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

David Abel, A. S. C, who looks enquiringly at you from the picture, has a biography interesting and lengthy, but somebody else will have to take it away from him for David was too busy to talk when the biography man called on him at Brunton Studio where he was engaged in the interesting procedure of photographing Constance Talmadge.

Mr. Abel might as well be a member of the family for he has photographed Talmadges since Connie played the mountain girl in Intolerance and he seems to like it. Why not? They are all easy to look at and that helps some to make a cameraman’s life more bearable.

Two whole years he cinematographed for Norma, filming her in The Woman Gives, The Heart of Wetona, The Probation Wife, The New Moon, The Isle of Conquest, She Loves and Lies, A Daughter of Two Worlds.

He filmed Rip Van Winkle with Ward Lascelle, and made Not Guilty Courage and Unseen Forces for Sidney Franklin. One of his fine bits of work was Thaïs with Mary Garden, and The Splendid Sin, both of them Goldwyn [Samuel Goldwyn] productions.

Mr. Abel began to turn the crank in 1913 but previous to that time he had two years’ experience in the laboratory. He is accounted one of the cleverest of the many camera-masters of the A. S. C.

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Collection: American Cinematographer, February 1922

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