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

Friend Baker, A. S. C, began his career as a cinematographer shooting one and then two reelers at Universal in October, 1914, Sidney Ayers [Sydney Ayres] directing, and during these seven years he has filmed scores of subjects of all kinds from one to seven reels in length.

Gladys Brockwell, Shirley Mason, Tom Mix, Buck Jones, Louise Lovely and others owe much to Mr. Baker’s skillful manipulation of the camera, and he has served with credit on many of the West Coast lots, among them Universal, Triangle, Fox [William Fox], Vitagraph, Lasky [Jesse L. Lasky]. Though young Mr. Baker is master of all branches of his profession and is as much at home in the laboratory as at the camera.

For years he has been a student of color photography and his researches have eventuated in the invention of a color process upon which he has but recently been allowed patents and which promises to make photography in natural colors a matter of ordinary procedure in the making of the motion pictures of the future. Mr. Baker’s invention is now being perfected at the shops of the Mitchell Camera Company and will very soon be ready for introduction to the industry.

Recently Mr. Baker joined the research department at Universal where he is directing his talents to the development of new effects in photography.

Mr. Baker filmed Trumpet Island for Vitagraph and considers that one of his best works.

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Collection: American Cinematographer, February 1922

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