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

Victor Milner, A. S. C, began about thirteen years ago to look toward cinematography as a profession and he went after it right by entering the laboratory of Eberhard Schneider of New York, the pioneer importer, manufacturer and dealer in photographic materials and supplies.

Here Mr. Milner learned the photographic business and its art from A to Z and when he shouldered his camera to shoot his first scene he knew how to do it.

He joined Pathé Frères as a news cameraman and for four years was in their service filming news, scenics, travel and educational subjects, one of his triumphs being the filming of the famous snake dance of the Hopi Indians. After leaving Pathé Frères Mr. Milner went to Balboa for six pictures and then joined Edgar Lewis to photograph “Hiawatha.” About this time Mr. Milner conceived the idea of making a trip to Africa for scenic, ethnological, and big game pictures and selected the Upper Congo as the field of his operations. Notwithstanding the difficulties placed in his path because of the war he negotiated the trip and brought back 30,000 feet of film of the most interesting subjects to be yielded by the Dark Continent. Returning to the United States Mr. Milner joined the J. D. Hampton Company where he photographed “A Fugitive from Matrimony,” “Haunted Shadows,” “Uncharted Channels” and others.

“Out of the Dust,” “When We Were Twenty-one, “Her Unwilling Husband,” starring Blanche Sweet; “Dice of Destiny,” with H. B. Warner; and “Shadows of Conscience” are others of his more recent pictures. Mr. Milner’s present connection is with Universal.

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Collection: American Cinematographer, February 1922

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