J. R. Lockwood — Little Close-Ups of the A. S. C. (1922) 🇺🇸

J. R. Lockwood, A. S. C, bears the distinction of eight years’ continuous service in one studio under one management. A story of his career is a history of the Mack Sennett studio, for he went with Sennett when that master producer of comedies was just beginning to get his name in the papers and he is there yet.

Mr. Lockwood, like many other A. S. Cs., began his career with the still camera in a portrait “gallery.” For several years he worked in all branches of photography — portrait, pictorial and commercial — at camera, printing and in the laboratory and with such well known men as Oliver Lippincott of New York, and George Steckel of Los Angeles.

When Sennett, therefore, gave Mr. Lockwood his chance he was already master of fundamentals and it was not long until he was given a camera on Sennett’s best productions. Some of his best known pictures are: Love, Honor and Behave!, Yankee Doodle in Berlin, A Battle Royal, Two Tough Tenderfeet, Cactus Nell, Whose Baby, By Golly, Great Scott, Speak Easy, Don’t Weaken, The Pullman Bride, His Hidden Purpose, It Pays to Exercise, Sleuths, Never Too Old, The Village Smith, Love’s False Faces, Trying to Get Along, The Dentist, Up in Alf’s Place, His Last False Step, A Small Town Idol.

During his career at Sennett’s Mr. Lockwood has photographed such well known stars as Mabel Normand, Alice Lake, Gloria Swanson, Marie Prevost, Harriet Hammond, Louise Fazenda, Ben Turpin, Charlie Murray [Charles Murray], George Nichols, Wheeler Oakman.

Mr. Lockwood will tell you that the photography of comedies such as have made the name of Sennett famous is the most difficult work that can be done with the motion camera, for, he says, to get some of the stuff to be shot the cinematographer must be not only a camera-master but an engineer.

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Collection: American Cinematographer, February 1922

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