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

Phil E. Rosen, A. S. C, though now a director, still has his heart in the camera.

Mr. Rosen started with the old Edison company and his experience has led him into all departments of the big game called motion pictures. He was for several years a projection machine operator, has had some laboratory experience and knows the camera as well as any man that ever cranked or built one. He is naturally a pretty fair electrician — this is often a most convenient thing for a cameraman to pack around with him. Mr. Rosen’s camera experience has been prolific of notable cinema successes, his first three being “The Heart of Maryland” with Mrs. Leslie Carter; “The Soul of Broadway,” featuring Valeska Suratt and “The Kreutzer Sonata” starring Nance O’Neill, these two latter being Fox [William Fox] productions. He filmed the five Robert Mantell pictures made by Fox and then went to Lynn Reynolds for one picture, “The Little Brother of the Rich.” Following this Mr. Rosen was assigned to Theda Bara and photographed that brilliant young woman in many of her greatest productions among them being “The Two Orphans,” “The Clemenceau Case,” “Romeo and Juliet,” “Under Two Flags,” The Hunchback of Notre Dame, “Heart and Soul,” “The Tiger Woman.”

“Fran” with Lillian Walker; “Baby Mine” with Madge Kennedy; “The Eternal Magdalene” starring Maxine Elliott; “Spreading Dawn” featuring Jane Cowl: “Roads of Destiny” with Olga Petrova were a quintet of successes with assorted stars beautifully handled by Rosen and then came that smashing success The Miracle Man, the late George Loane Tucker’s masterpiece. This picture won directorial honors for Mr. Rosen and he was called to Universal to handle the megaphone for Mary MacLaren’s “The Road to Divorce” and Anne Cornwall in “The Path She Chose.”

He then signed with Metro where he produced “Are All Men Alike,” “The Lure of Youth;” “Extravagance” with May Allison; “The Little Lady in the Big House.”

Mr. Rosen [Phil Rosen] directed Handle with Care for the Rockett Brothers [Al Rockett | Ray Rockett] and then went to Lasky’s [Jesse L. Lasky] to direct Wallace Reid. With this star he has produced “The Champion” and “Across the Continent.” His directorial work is ample proof of his ability to shine in this company as well as with the camera.

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Collection: American Cinematographer, February 1922

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