Vintage Movie Resources
Tod Browning — The Personal Side of the Pictures (1914) 🇺🇸
There is no limit to the number of weird absurdities which Tod Browning is capable of putting over
William Garwood — The Personal Side of the Pictures (1914) 🇺🇸
How William Garwood became an onion fancier
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
Nolan Gane — Real Tales About Reel Folk (1914) 🇺🇸
“I’m not acting for money, but for popularity and fame,” Nolan Gane says
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
Arthur Mackley — Real Tales About Reel Folk (1914) 🇺🇸
Arthur Mackley’s picturesque costume is as much a part of himself as his hands and feet
Richard Cummings — Real Tales About Reel Folk (1914) 🇺🇸
Richard Cummings — who is “Dick” to the studio folk — has been in the theatrical business all his life
Jack Richardson — Real Tales About Reel Folk (1914) 🇺🇸
Jack Richardson, the famous “villain,” took it all with characteristic good nature
Richard Stanton — Real Tales About Reel Folk (1914) 🇺🇸
Richard Stanton, resourceful actor–director, recently came up against a serious problem
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
Chester A. Lyons — Little Close-Ups of the A. S. C. (1922) 🇺🇸
Chester A. Lyons has practically never been idle since he first began to crank second camera
Henry Cronjager — Little Close-Ups of the A. S. C. (1922) 🇺🇸
Henry Cronjager turned to photography as early as 1893 and that was in the days “When You and I Were Young, Maggie”
H. Lyman Broening — Little Close-Ups of the A. S. C. (1922) 🇺🇸
H. Lyman Broening has shot so many celebrities that a review of his pictures carries one through an art gallery of film history
Walter Lundin — Little Close-Ups of the A. S. C. (1922) 🇺🇸
Walter Lundin will tell you that while it means a steady job to hitch your camera to such a star as Harold Lloyd, it also means a life of strenuousity and hardship
Hans F. Koenekamp — Little Close-Ups of the A. S. C. (1922) 🇺🇸
Larry Semon is a world headliner at the laughsmith game, but if you’ll ask him how much Hans F. Koenekamp helps him you’ll be surprised
Roy H. Klaffki — Little Close-Ups of the A. S. C. (1922) 🇺🇸
The director of photography at Metro, Roy H. Klaffki, is the official goat of the studio
John F. Seitz — Little Close-Ups of the A. S. C. (1922) 🇺🇸
Compared to John F. Seitz, oysters are orators and starfish are noisy roisterers
Fred LeRoy Granville — Little Close-Ups of the A. S. C. (1922) 🇺🇸
Fred Leroy Granville is a bloody Britisher by birth
Harry W. Gerstad — Little Close-Ups of the A. S. C. (1922) 🇺🇸
Harry W. Gerstad demonstrated in various movies how to shoot according to his own ideas, and not the director’s
