Vintage Movie Resources

Movie pioneers behind the camera: 3 cinematographers and 1 lab technician

Just what possessed Violet Mersereau’s to invite me to interview her at such an unreasonable hour was more than my fertile mind could fathom.

How Leslie Elton carries a comedy company to the studio in his vest pocket and turns out film farces with no other aid than a camera

My debut in motion pictures was the result of my seeking a way out of a dilemma.

I have just completed my seventeenth film production. Allowing three “takes” to each scene, this would make approximately 225,000 feet of celluloid, or nearly forty-five miles, in the two years in which I have been in the photoplay.

I have been asked by The Photo-Play Journal to write a short story on “How I Became a Photoplayer,” and accordingly will endeavor to present facts which, however, I am afraid will disclose nothing particularly startling.

In my early days I was literally hampered by dramatic instinct, human sympathy and emotional feeling. At first I overacted, rather, over-felt.

It was in a spirit of fun that Grace Cunard joined the pictures.

Ever since Lillian Walker played the leading part in The Little Doll’s Dressmaker, in which she was even more charming than usual, she has been identified with dolls, and it has occurred to many that she is very much of a doll herself.

Twenty-two years ago an impudent-faced, undersized youngster made his appearance in the field, over in Brooklyn, which served as a ball-ground for the boys who lived in the neighborhood.