Vintage Movie Resources
John W. Leezer — Little Close-Ups of the A. S. C. (1922) 🇺🇸
Do you remember any of the early pictures of D. W. Griffith? John W. Leezer shot them all
Abe Scholtz — Little Close-Ups of the A. S. C. (1922) 🇺🇸
Abe Scholtz looks upon motion photography as a vast and unexplored real
Ernest Palmer — Little Close-Ups of the A. S. C. (1922) 🇺🇸
Ernest Palmer had a fine career open before him in England, but the American producers seemed to be going ahead along new lines so he came to America and cast his fortunes with the industry here
Friend Baker — Little Close-Ups of the A. S. C. (1922) 🇺🇸
Friend Baker’s inventions promise to make photography in natural colors a matter of ordinary procedure in the making of the motion pictures of the future
David Abel — Little Close-Ups of the A. S. C. (1922) 🇺🇸
David Abel is accounted one of the cleverest of the many camera-masters of the A. S. C.
Allen G. Siegler — Little Close-Ups of the A. S. C. (1922) 🇺🇸
Just how Allen G. Siegler ever chose the exciting job of a cameraman is hard to dope out
Ben F. Reynolds — Little Close-Ups of the A. S. C. (1922) 🇺🇸
Ben F. Reynolds belongs to the ancient and honorable Society of Clams — the A. S. C.
Jack MacKenzie — Little Close-Ups of the A. S. C. (1922) 🇺🇸
Jack MacKenzie is a deep student of photography in all its branches and nobody can tell him that the cinematographic profession is not the finest in the world
Robert Kurrle — Little Close-Ups of the A. S. C. (1922) 🇺🇸
Robert Kurrle, after 7 years at the camera, still thinks it the greatest game in the world
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