Vintage Movie Resources

November 25, 2025

Carroll Fleming — The Personal Side of the Pictures (1914) 🇺🇸

Carroll Fleming believes in giving everybody a dollar and a half’s worth for his dollar

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Frank Losee (1856–1937) | www.vintoz.com
November 25, 2025

Richman, Poorman, Beggarman — ! They’re All Frank Losee (1919) 🇺🇸

Frank Losee has played richman, poorman, beggarman, thief as vividly as doctor, lawyer, and Indian chief

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Raymond B. West (1886–1923) | www.vintoz.com
November 23, 2025

Raymond B. West — The Personal Side of the Pictures (1914) 🇺🇸

Call Raymond B. West the “nut director”, and his answer has the effect of a Maxim silencer

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Tom Ricketts (Thomas B. Ricketts) (1853–1939) | www.vintoz.com
November 23, 2025

Thomas Ricketts — The Personal Side of the Pictures (1914) 🇺🇸

Thomas Ricketts is convinced of the immense educational value of the photoplay, and its widespread moral influence

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Tod Browning (Charles Albert Browning Jr.) (1880–1962) | www.vintoz.com
November 22, 2025

Tod Browning — The Personal Side of the Pictures (1914) 🇺🇸

There is no limit to the number of weird absurdities which Tod Browning is capable of putting over

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William Garwood (William Davis Garwood, Jr.) (1884–1950) | www.vintoz.com
November 20, 2025

William Garwood — The Personal Side of the Pictures (1914) 🇺🇸

How William Garwood became an onion fancier

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November 20, 2025

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

Stephen S. Norton began his useful career as a cinematographer in New York City

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J. R. Lockwood (1871–1948) | www.vintoz.com
November 20, 2025

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

When Mack Sennett gave J. R. Lockwood his chance, he was already master of fundamentals and it was not long until he was given a camera on Sennett’s best productions

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November 19, 2025

Charles Edgar Schoenbaum — Little Close-Ups of the A. S. C. (1922) 🇺🇸

Charles Edgar Schoenbaum started to learn the camera game as an assistant — a good place to start if a boy has the discretion to keep his mouth shut, his ears and eyes open and his mind alert

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November 19, 2025

Marcel Le Picard — Little Close-Ups of the A. S. C. (1922) 🇺🇸

It was in 1904 that Marcel Le Picard started out to shoot everything that came his way for Pathé Frères

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Nolan Gane (1892–1915) | www.vintoz.com
November 19, 2025

Nolan Gane — Real Tales About Reel Folk (1914) 🇺🇸

“I’m not acting for money, but for popularity and fame,” Nolan Gane says

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Reginald Lyons — Little Close-Ups of the A. S. C. (1922) 🇺🇸
November 18, 2025

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

Having started in the days when one, two and three reelers were the staple films, Reginald Lyons has hundreds of pictures to his credit

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Arthur Edeson (1891–1970) | www.vintoz.com
November 18, 2025

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

Arthur Edeson is the Beau Brummell of the A. S. C.

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November 18, 2025

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

Walter L. Griffin did his kindergarten work with Universal

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Arthur Mackley (“The Sheriff”) (1865–1926) | www.vintoz.com
November 18, 2025

Arthur Mackley — Real Tales About Reel Folk (1914) 🇺🇸

Arthur Mackley’s picturesque costume is as much a part of himself as his hands and feet

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Richard Cummings (Richard Henry Cummings) (1858–1938) | www.vintoz.com
November 18, 2025

Richard Cummings — Real Tales About Reel Folk (1914) 🇺🇸

Richard Cummings — who is “Dick” to the studio folk — has been in the theatrical business all his life

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Jack Richardson (Jack Howard Richardson) (1870–1960) | www.vintoz.com
November 18, 2025

Jack Richardson — Real Tales About Reel Folk (1914) 🇺🇸

Jack Richardson, the famous “villain,” took it all with characteristic good nature

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Richard Stanton (1876–1956) | www.vintoz.com
November 18, 2025

Richard Stanton — Real Tales About Reel Folk (1914) 🇺🇸

Richard Stanton, resourceful actor–director, recently came up against a serious problem

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November 16, 2025

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

William Beckway became interested in things cinematographic when he was still in rompers, but he didn’t get into the game with a camera until about 1910

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Chester A. Lyons (1885–1936) | www.vintoz.com
November 16, 2025

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

Chester A. Lyons has practically never been idle since he first began to crank second camera

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Henry Cronjager (1877–1967) | www.vintoz.com
November 16, 2025

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

Henry Cronjager turned to photography as early as 1893 and that was in the days “When You and I Were Young, Maggie”

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H. Lyman Broening (Henry Lyman Broening) (1882-1983) | www.vintoz.com
November 16, 2025

H. Lyman Broening — Little Close-Ups of the A. S. C. (1922) 🇺🇸

H. Lyman Broening has shot so many celebrities that a review of his pictures carries one through an art gallery of film history

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Walter Lundin (1892–1954) | www.vintoz.com
November 16, 2025

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

Walter Lundin 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

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Hans F. Koenekamp (Hans Frederick Koenekamp) (1891–1992) | www.vintoz.com
November 16, 2025

Hans F. Koenekamp — Little Close-Ups of the A. S. C. (1922) 🇺🇸

Larry Semon is a world headliner at the laughsmith game, but if you’ll ask him how much Hans F. Koenekamp helps him you’ll be surprised

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