Tony Gaudio — Little Close-Ups of the A. S. C. (1922) 🇺🇸
The good natured face that here looks out at you is Gaetano Gaudio, A. S. C, a son of Italy and known affectionately to his friends as Tony.
He is a brother of the late lamented Eugene Gaudio, the only deceased member of the A. S. C, and as popular in his day as Tony himself.
Tony, as the writer shall call him, is the son of one of Italy’s foremost photographic artists and the boy was literally brought up in the studio where he learned at an early age to use the still camera and to develop negatives in the darkroom. His father also gave him a liberal education in lenses, cameras, composition and the manipulation of lights so that when the time came to take up motion photography the young Tony had a head full of useful stuff to start with.
He sailed for America in 1906 and from the day of his landing until now he has been steadily employed in his profession, his first work in America being the making of song slides for Al. Simpson, this engagement lasting two years.
During 1908 he had full charge of the Vitagraph Laboratory in New York and went thence to the Carl Laemmle laboratory where he had complete charge of both positive and negative departments until perfectly organized when he was promoted to be studio manager and chief of cinematographers. This connection ended in 1912 when Mr. Gaudio went to Biograph where he made the Klaw & Erlanger special productions among which were “Strongheart,” “Classmates,” with Blanche Sweet and Marshall Neilan, “The Woman in Black,” “The Cricket on the Hearth.”
He filmed all of Harold Lockwood’s first series of starring vehicles under direction of T. J. Balshofer and then photographed “The Unpardonable Sin,” “In Old Kentucky,” “The Kingdom of Her Dreams” with Marshall Neilan.
Mr. Gaudio’s [Tony Gaudio] more recent work includes “Kismet” and a series of special features by J. L. Frothingham Productions including “A Bride of the Gods,” “The Man Who Smiled,” “A Pilgrim of the Night,” etc.
His present engagement is with Norma Talmadge, at the United Studios.
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Collection: American Cinematographer, February 1922
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