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

George Meehan, A. S. C, isn’t afraid to tell his age and George is terrible old, too. He made a bad choice when he selected Brooklyn as a place of nativity but he got away from there as quick as he could and hurried to California. Oh, yes, July 19, 1891, was the date George selected as a suitable birthday and he says it’s as good as any.

After absorbing a liberal education in the schools of the metropolis he was attracted to the pictures and came to Camerafornia in 1910. For three years he worked as mechanic and tester and then one day Henry Lehrman took an interest in him and attached him to his company at Fox studio where he was filming Sunshine comedies.

After three years’ hard work as an assistant cameraman he was given a camera and has operated with success up to the present writing meeting every demand made upon his artistry.

In the making of comedies Mr. Meehan was called upon to do all sorts of stunt stuff included in which were thrills which called him to shoot balloon and aeroplane stuff at high altitudes, to ride in a racing automobile at 100 miles per hour; to photograph lions in a cage where his camera was knocked down; to operate his camera from a swinging steel girder twelve stories above the street.

This reads thrilling enough, but George says it’s all in a day’s work in comedies and after a while it’s like playing with blocks. Mr. Meehan’s cinematographic activities were interrupted for six months during the world war. He enlisted in the Signal Corps of the U. S. A. and served as official photographer attached to the General Staff of the U. S. A.

After being mustered out he returned to the camera, photographed five comedies for Lehrman and then went to Wilnat Films, Inc., who make the Hall Room boy comedies. He has filmed twenty-four straight productions and is still attached to this company.

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Collection: American Cinematographer, February 1922

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