Vintage Movie Resources
Dal Clawson — Little Close-Ups of the A. S. C. (1922) 🇺🇸
Some cameramen, like Dal Clawson, are so shy and skittish that they must be roped, hog-tied and branded before they will stand long enough to be communicated with
Faxon M. Dean — Little Close-Ups of the A. S. C. (1922) 🇺🇸
Faxon M. Dean likes to let his cinematographic work do the talking for him
Joseph H. August — Little Close-Ups of the A. S. C. (1922) 🇺🇸
Joseph H. August’s reputation traveled along the ascending scale with that of his star, William S. Hart
René Guissart — Little Close-Ups of the A. S. C. (1922) 🇺🇸
René Guissart is another of the silent brothers — he will talk, but not about Guissart, and that makes it difficult for the patient biographer
Harry M. Fowler — Little Close-Ups of the A. S. C. (1922) 🇺🇸
Tuning up his camera, Harry M. Fowler struck out for Camerafornia in 1913
Alois G. Heimerl — Little Close-Ups of the A. S. C. (1922) 🇺🇸
Alois G. Heimerl had an important part in developing such stars as Gail Kane, Margarita Fischer, Mary Miles Minter, and a score of other well known artists of the screen
Perry Evans — Little Close-Ups of the A. S. C. (1922) 🇺🇸
If they have motion pictures in heaven (and cinematographers go there), celestial bound picture fans will some day find Perry Evans there cranking the camera
William C. Foster — Little Close-Ups of the A. S. C. (1922) 🇺🇸
William C. Foster has been in the cinematographic harness since 1901 — that’s 21 years ago. Billy must have started in while he still wore rompers, for he looks only about 25 now
George Meehan — Little Close-Ups of the A. S. C. (1922) 🇺🇸
In the making of comedies, George Meehan was called upon to operate his camera from a swinging steel girder twelve stories above the street
King D. Gray — Little Close-Ups of the A. S. C. (1922) 🇺🇸
A cameraman, such as King D. Gray, is like the Roman sentinel of Pompeii — everybody else can get away, but he must stick till he dies if a scene is being shot
Edward A. Kull — Little Close-Ups of the A. S. C. (1922) 🇺🇸
Edward A. Kull’s failure to kick in with a biographical sketch of his cinematic career gave us this opportunity to pay a tribute to printer’s ink
Ira H. Morgan — Little Close-Ups of the A. S. C. (1922) 🇺🇸
Ira H. Morgan shines as one of “the men who make motion pictures”
Roland Totheroh — Little Close-Ups of the A. S. C. (1922) 🇺🇸
The history of Charles Chaplin is the history of Roland Totheroh and a story could not be told of one without the other
William C. McGann — Little Close-Ups of the A. S. C. (1922) 🇺🇸
Like all veterans of the World War, William C. McGann is almost as noisy about war stuff as a cherrystone clam at a gingerbread picnic
Hugh McClung — Little Close-Ups of the A. S. C. (1922) 🇺🇸
Hugh McClung thinks the camera is the big thing in motion pictures
L. Guy Wilky — Little Close-Ups of the A. S. C. (1922) 🇺🇸
If you ask cinematographer L. Guy Wilky about the best picture he ever shot, he’ll tell you it was the picture of his six months’ old baby
W. Steve Smith Jr. — Little Close-Ups of the A. S. C. (1922) 🇺🇸
W. Steve Smith Jr. is probably the champion serial photographer of the world
Phil Rosen — Little Close-Ups of the A. S. C. (1922) 🇺🇸
Phil Rosen still has his heart in the camera
Virgil Miller — Little Close-Ups of the A. S. C. (1922) 🇺🇸
Some day, Señor Virgilio Molinos [Virgil Miller] will be a famous cameraman
Joseph A. Dubray — Little Close-Ups of the A. S. C. (1922) 🇺🇸
Joseph A. Dubray’s first experiment with motion photography was as early as 1898 and he got his first commercial results in 1899
Jackson Rose — Little Close-Ups of the A. S. C. (1922) 🇺🇸
Apart from his first job as a cameraman, Jackson Rose is also an inventor of appliances for motion cameras
Fred Jackman — Little Close-Ups of the A. S. C. (1922) 🇺🇸
Fred Jackman is one of the veterans of the cinematographic profession