Vintage Movie Resources
John M. Stahl — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
John M. Stahl, supervising production of the Tiffany-Stahl Production, stepped into the role of motion picture director as, what would be termed in baseball, a pinch hitter.
John S. Robertson — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
John S. Robertson, one of the leading directors of the screen industry, refused to be a screen villain, so he became a director.
Fred Niblo — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
Motion picture stars are not the only ones to claim interesting backgrounds.
Robert F. Hill — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
Twenty years ago, Robert F. Hill, now noted motion picture director, started on his professional career in the somewhat lowly capacity of dresser.
Frank Capra — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
Frank Capra, motion picture director, got a good break when he returned from service in the army following the war.
Bruce Mitchell — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸
Bruce Mitchell, one of the foremost of the Universal directors, seems to have had a varied career before finally alighting in the midst of the Hollywood film industry
Paul Verhoeven (Universal Filmlexikon — 1932) 🇩🇪 🇬🇧
Paul Verhoeven is one of the most talented of the younger generation of German stage actors
J. Gordon Edwards — Directors I Have Met (1923) 🇬🇧
When William Fox decided to become a film producer, he looked around for efficient helpers and in the manager, or producing director of his stock company, found the man who was to play a most important role in the history of Fox Films.
John Robertson — Directors I Have Met (1923) 🇬🇧
John Robertson, who has directed some of the best of American pictures, is a great enthusiast where England is concerned.
Herbert Brenon — Directors I Have Met (1923) 🇬🇧
Herbert Brenon holds the record for being the first director of American pictures of leading rank, who came from across the sea.
Elmer Clifton — Directors I Have Met (1923) 🇬🇧
Elmer Clifton has been in the picture game for nearly nine years, and has always been known as a clever director, but his association with D. W. Griffith made a great many people think that his cleverness was due largely to the latter fact.
James Cruze — Directors I Have Met (1923) 🇬🇧
From the hero of “The Million Dollar Mystery” to the director of a million-dollar movie is quite an accomplishment. And James Cruze, who put on “The Covered Wagon” for Paramount, made the step in a little less than ten years.
Frederic Sullivan-Londoner — Directors I Have Met (1923) 🇬🇧
This is the story of one of the many Englishmen who have made good in pictures and on the stage.
Rex Ingram — Directors I Have Met (1923) 🇬🇧
Rex Ingram was born in Dublin, educated at the University, and destined for the Bar. Unfortunately for his family’s happiness, he decided that his career was art, and so ran away and came to America.
Allan Dwan — Directors I Have Met (1923) 🇬🇧
Most of us would be content with one perfectly good vocation; Allan Dwan has at least three at his fingertips, not to mention five or six more at which he could probably make a living, if he had to do so.
Frank Lloyd — Directors I Have Met (1923) 🇬🇧
The first of a new series dealing with the personalities of the men behind the megaphone.
Millard Webb — Directors I Have Met (1924) 🇬🇧
Hollywood’s Baby Director” is the unofficial title bestowed upon Millard Webb, whose years of experience of this world number only twenty-nine.
Al Christie — Directors I Have Met (1924) 🇬🇧
Al Christie is the globe trotter of producers but when he is in the States, he prefers Hollywood.
Harold Shaw — Directors I Have Met (1924) 🇬🇧
I had always thought that Harold Shaw was an Englishman, even though he was a member of the Old Edison Company some fifteen years ago.
The Art of Abel Gance (1924) 🇬🇧
David Wark Griffith, Charles Chaplin, Rex Ingram, Abel Gance! Four names in the world’s screen industry which convey to the picturegoer a wealth of meaning.
Henry Koster Practices Exactly What He Preaches (1950) 🇺🇸
This director, who has contributed his share of hits, is a student of human nature, which shows up in his films
Scissor Craft — How Lotte Reiniger Makes Silhouette Films (1936) 🇺🇸
For Lotte Reiniger’s silhouette film, Prince Achmet, a quarter of a million separate photographs were taken.
Motion Picture News Blue Book (1930) — Tod Browning 🇺🇸
Vintage Advertisement — Movie Director Tod Browning