Hans F. Koenekamp — Little Close-Ups of the A. S. C. (1922) 🇺🇸

H. F. Koenekamp, A. S. C, has a biographical sketch ten feet long but when a man photographs comedies and especially comedies with such a strenuous star as Larry Semon he has no time to be bothered with such frivolous and non-essential things.

If you are a Larry Semon fan, and a lot of very good people are, you no doubt have long ago arrived at the conclusion that Mr. Semon is carrying around some cameraman in his entourage and if you’ll look further into the matter you may also find that this cameraman has quite a bit to do with Mr. Semon’s popularity.

In these days the very life of a motion picture comedy may well depend upon the ability of the artist at the camera to get freak effects, stunt stuff and make the camera do tricks.

Normally the camera doesn’t lie, but a clever cameraman can make it lie and thereby get a lot of laughs for a comedian that otherwise he might not get. The next time you see a comedy take note of this.

Mr. Semon is a world headliner at the laughsmith game, but if you’ll ask him how much the camera helps him you’ll be surprised.

Since affiliating with Vitagraph and Semon Mr. Koenekamp has photographed Mr. Semon in such famous comedies as “The Hick,” “The Baker,” “The Rent Collector,” “The Sportsman,” “The Stage Hand,” “The Suitor,” “The Grocery Clerk,” “School Days,” “The Sawmill,” “The Fall Guy,” “Mickey 50-50” and others.

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Collection: American Cinematographer, February 1922

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