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

George Barnes, A. S. C, is another one of the boys who may be classed as a modest violet. George is a real cameramaster, but his idea of a biographical sketch is that the editor should not want it in the first place and that it is of interest only to the subject of it in the second place. Therefore, George leaves it to the poor overworked editor to drag the stuff down out of the blue sky and sometimes the blue sky is a poor record keeper.

The first we hear of George is when he set up to shoot Dangerous Hours for Ince [Thomas H. Ince]. It was a good picture and it earned Mr. Barnes a contract to do others. He was next assigned to Director Fred Niblo to photograph Enid Bennett in Silk Hosiery after which he went with the Leah Baird Productions for one picture, The Heart Line and then returned to Ince.

He photographed Miss Bennett in The Woman in the Suitcase, The False Road, Hairpins, all directed by Mr. Niblo. When Miss Bennett retired from the screen Mr. Barnes joined Universal where, among others, he shot the two all star features “Renunciation” and The Beautiful Gambler.

Mr. Barnes’ present affiliation is King Vidor’s studio where he has photographed some of that brilliant young director’s finest productions.

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Collection: American Cinematographer, February 1922

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