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

Walter Lundin, A. S. C, 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.

To train with a comedian like the festive and daredevil Harold one must be a soldier, sailor, submarine diver, chimney sweep, steeplejack, structural iron worker, speed demon, mountaineer, dynamite mixer, stoker, balloonist, bridge builder, aviator, dog catcher and everything else that’s dangerous.

On a platform rigged to the pilot of a locomotive running eighty miles an hour or tied to a swinging beam one hundred feet in the air, or lashed to the top plane of an airship is no place for a man with a weak heart and it is, therefore, sure that Mr. Lundin would easily pass an examination for life insurance if comedy cameramen were considered good risks.

Mr. Lundin’s work with Lloyd speaks for itself. His photography is one of the delights of this young comedian’s pictures and it has materially helped him to become the great drawing card that he is. Since joining the forces of the Hal Roach Studios Mr. Lundin has photographed Lloyd in “Number Please,” “Now or Never,” Among Those Present, “High and Dizzy,” “Captain Kid’s Kids,” “Never Weaken,” “The Sailor Made Man” and others.

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Collection: American Cinematographer, February 1922

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