Vintage Movie Resources
Fritz Wagner — A General for a Day (1914) 🇺🇸
Fritz Wagner, Pathé cameraman, commanded Mexico’s army for a day
Aces of the Camera — Leon Shamroy (1941) 🇺🇸
Leon Shamroy is one of the industry’s outstanding masters of the camera
Aces of the Camera — Ray Rennahan (1941) 🇺🇸
Ray Rennahan is sometimes singled out as “the grand-daddy of Technicolor cinematographers”
Aces of the Camera — Nicholas Musuraca (1941) 🇺🇸
To Nicholas Musuraca, there must be a reason for everything
Aces of the Camera — William H. Daniels (1941) 🇺🇸
William H. Daniels is a cinematographer’s cinematographer
Aces of the Camera — Arthur Edeson (1942) 🇺🇸
Arthur Edeson didn’t intend to become a cinematographer when he made his start in the industry 30 years ago
Aces of the Camera — Joseph Ruttenberg (1942) 🇺🇸
Joseph Ruttenberg’s cinematographic career began very amusingly
Aces of the Camera — Rudolph Maté (1942) 🇺🇸
Mild-mannered Rudolph Maté is as different as possible from the dashing extroverts fiction writers like to characterize as cameramen
Aces of the Camera — Farciot Edouart (1942) 🇺🇸
Special-process photographers, such as Farciot Edouart, seldom bask in the limelight of publicity
Aces of the Camera — Arthur C. Miller (1942) 🇺🇸
Arthur C. Miller’s two absorbing interests are fine horseflesh and making pictures photographically
Aces of the Camera — George J. Folsey (1942) 🇺🇸
George J. Folsey is the perfect embodiment of the old axiom that “cinematographers are born, not made”
Aces of the Camera — Tony Gaudio (1942) 🇺🇸
Tony Gaudio is one of the industry’s greatest cinematographers
Aces of the Camera — Victor Milner (1942) 🇺🇸
20 years ago an unknown young cameraman, Victor Milner, approached Fred Niblo and asked for the chance of photographing his next production
Aces of the Camera — Gregg Toland (1942) 🇺🇸
Gregg Toland is Hollywood’s foremost master of the camera
Stephen S. Norton — Little Close-Ups of the A. S. C. (1922) 🇺🇸
Stephen S. Norton began his useful career as a cinematographer in New York City
J. R. Lockwood — Little Close-Ups of the A. S. C. (1922) 🇺🇸
When Mack Sennett gave J. R. 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
Charles Edgar Schoenbaum — Little Close-Ups of the A. S. C. (1922) 🇺🇸
Charles Edgar Schoenbaum started to learn the camera game as an assistant — a good place to start if a boy has the discretion to keep his mouth shut, his ears and eyes open and his mind alert
Marcel Le Picard — Little Close-Ups of the A. S. C. (1922) 🇺🇸
It was in 1904 that Marcel Le Picard started out to shoot everything that came his way for Pathé Frères
Reginald Lyons — Little Close-Ups of the A. S. C. (1922) 🇺🇸
Having started in the days when one, two and three reelers were the staple films, Reginald Lyons has hundreds of pictures to his credit
Arthur Edeson — Little Close-Ups of the A. S. C. (1922) 🇺🇸
Arthur Edeson is the Beau Brummell of the A. S. C.
Walter L. Griffin — Little Close-Ups of the A. S. C. (1922) 🇺🇸
Walter L. Griffin did his kindergarten work with Universal
William Beckway — Little Close-Ups of the A. S. C. (1922) 🇺🇸
William Beckway became interested in things cinematographic when he was still in rompers, but he didn’t get into the game with a camera until about 1910