Vintage Movie Resources

William C. Foster (1880–1923) | www.vintoz.com
November 01, 2025

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

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George Meehan (George Benjamin Meehan Jr.) (1891–1947) | www.vintoz.com
November 01, 2025

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

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King D. Gray (King David Gray) (1886–1938) | www.vintoz.com
November 01, 2025

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

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Edward A. Kull — Little Close-Ups of the A. S. C. (1922) 🇺🇸
October 31, 2025

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

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George Barnes (George S. Barnes) (1892–1953) | www.vintoz.com
October 31, 2025

George Barnes — Little Close-Ups of the A. S. C. (1922) 🇺🇸

George Barnes is a real cameramaster

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Ira H. Morgan (Ira Harry Morgan) (1889–1959) | www.vintoz.com
October 31, 2025

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”

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Roland Totheroh (Roland Herbert Totheroh) (1890–1967) | www.vintoz.com
October 31, 2025

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

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William C. McGann — Little Close-Ups of the A. S. C. (1922) 🇺🇸
October 30, 2025

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

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Hugh McClung (Hugh C. McClung) (1874–1946) | www.vintoz.com
October 30, 2025

Hugh McClung — Little Close-Ups of the A. S. C. (1922) 🇺🇸

Hugh McClung thinks the camera is the big thing in motion pictures

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L. Guy Wilky (Leslie Guy Wilky) (1888–1971) | www.vintoz.com
October 25, 2025

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

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W. Steve Smith Jr. (1872–1938) | www.vintoz.com
October 25, 2025

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

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Phil Rosen (Philip E. Rosen) (1888–1951) | www.vintoz.com
October 23, 2025

Phil Rosen — Little Close-Ups of the A. S. C. (1922) 🇺🇸

Phil Rosen still has his heart in the camera

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Virgil Miller (1886–1974) | www.vintoz.com
October 23, 2025

Virgil Miller — Little Close-Ups of the A. S. C. (1922) 🇺🇸

Some day, Señor Virgilio Molinos [Virgil Miller] will be a famous cameraman

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Joseph A. Dubray (1881–19??) | www.vintoz.com
October 22, 2025

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

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James Van Trees (James Crawford Van Trees) (1890–1973) | www.vintoz.com
October 22, 2025

James Van Trees — Little Close-Ups of the A. S. C. (1922) 🇺🇸

James C. Van Trees has been a busy boy

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Jackson Rose (1886–1956) | www.vintoz.com
October 22, 2025

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

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Fred Jackman (Fred Wood Jackman Sr.) (1881–1959) | www.vintoz.com
October 21, 2025

Fred Jackman — Little Close-Ups of the A. S. C. (1922) 🇺🇸

Fred Jackman is one of the veterans of the cinematographic profession

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Georges Benoît (1883–1942) | www.vintoz.com
October 21, 2025

Georges Benoît — Little Close-Ups of the A. S. C. (1922) 🇺🇸

Georges Benoît is a master of all branches of his profession

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Rudolph J. Bergquist (1885–1928) | www.vintoz.com
October 21, 2025

Rudolph J. Bergquist — Little Close-Ups of the A. S. C. (1922) 🇺🇸

Rudolph J. Bergquist started his photographic career when he received a small box camera as 14 year old boy

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Gus Peterson (Gus C. Peterson) (1893–1969) | www.vintoz.com
October 21, 2025

Gus Peterson — Little Close-Ups of the A. S. C. (1922) 🇺🇸

Gus Peterson is the latest of the cinematographers to forsake the camera for the directorial megaphone

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Paul P. Perry (Paul Percy Perry) (1891–1963) | www.vintoz.com
October 21, 2025

Paul P. Perry — Little Close-Ups of the A. S. C. (1922) 🇺🇸

Paul P. Perry has speny most of his time as a cinematographer with Famous Players-Lasky

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Eugene Gaudio (1886–1920) | www.vintoz.com
October 20, 2025

Eugene Gaudio — Little Close-Ups of the A. S. C. (1922) 🇺🇸

Eugene Gaudio and his brother Tony Gaudio had early training in the photographic art in the portrait studio of their father

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George Rizard (Georges Rizard) (1870–19??) | www.vintoz.com
October 20, 2025

Georges Rizard — Little Close-Ups of the A. S. C. (1922) 🇺🇸

Georges Rizard knew a lot of photography before he bade bonjour to La Belle France

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Robert Newhard (Robert S. Newhard | Robert Newhardt | Robert Newhart) (1884–1945) | www.vintoz.com
October 20, 2025

Robert Newhard — Little Close-Ups of the A. S. C. (1922) 🇺🇸

Robert Newhard is one of the greatest aerial photographers in the world

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