Vintage Movie Resources

Roy H. Klaffki (1882–1965) | www.vintoz.com
November 16, 2025

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

The director of photography at Metro, Roy H. Klaffki, is the official goat of the studio

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John F. Seitz (John Francis Seitz) (1892–1979) | www.vintoz.com
November 16, 2025

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

Compared to John F. Seitz, oysters are orators and starfish are noisy roisterers

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Fred LeRoy Granville (1894–1979) | www.vintoz.com
November 16, 2025

Fred LeRoy Granville — Little Close-Ups of the A. S. C. (1922) 🇺🇸

Fred Leroy Granville is a bloody Britisher by birth

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November 15, 2025

Harry W. Gerstad — Little Close-Ups of the A. S. C. (1922) 🇺🇸

Harry W. Gerstad demonstrated in various movies how to shoot according to his own ideas, and not the director’s

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Gilbert Warrenton (1894–1980) | www.vintoz.com
November 15, 2025

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

Gilbert Warrenton acknowledges that his ambition knows no limit

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Wilfred Buckland (1866–1946) | www.vintoz.com
November 14, 2025

Wilfred Buckland — Artistic Titan (1917) 🇺🇸

Wilfred Buckland deals with the battles of beauty

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James Mason — “The Majority of my Films are Crummy” (1975) | www.vintoz.com
November 14, 2025

James Mason — “The Majority of my Films are Crummy” (1975) 🇨🇦

James Mason belongs to the handful of movie actors who are so professional that it is difficult remembering them ever delivering a poor presentation

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November 14, 2025

Dino De Laurentiis — Profile (1975) 🇨🇦

If he had followed the dictates of his father, Dino De Laurentiis might now be a manufacturer of pasta

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William Castle (William Schloss Jr.) (1914–1977) | www.vintoz.com
November 14, 2025

William Castle — The King of the Gimmick (1975) 🇨🇦

“I suppose you could say I’ve devoted my career to scaring the hell out of people.” — William Castle

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Frank B. Good (1884–1939) | www.vintoz.com
November 14, 2025

Frank B. Good — Little Close-Ups of the A. S. C. (1922) 🇺🇸

Frank B. Good can shoot anything as well as any other cinematographer that ever cranked a camera

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Karl Brown (1896–1990) | www.vintoz.com
November 14, 2025

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

2 years of close association with D. W. Griffith and G. W. Bitzer equipped Karl Brown for a bigger job, so he was assigned to the department of experimentation

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Catherine Deneuve (Catherine Fabienne Dorléac) (1943–now) | www.vintoz.com
November 14, 2025

Catherine Deneuve — The Most Beautiful Woman in the World? (1975) 🇨🇦

Nobody knows who elected French star Catherine Deneuve The World’s Most Beautiful Woman

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George Schneiderman (1894–1964) | www.vintoz.com
November 13, 2025

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

George Schneiderman loves the camera and, notwithstanding his manifold duties in the laboratory, he finds time to shoot an occasional picture

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John Arnold (1889–1964) | www.vintoz.com
November 12, 2025

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

John Arnold is sure of himself at all times

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Nobert Brodine (Norbert F. Brodin | Norbert Brodin) (1896–1970) | www.vintoz.com
November 12, 2025

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

Norbert Brodine’s success at such an early age gives promise of a career of great brilliance and usefulness in his chosen profession

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Benjamin H. Kline (Benjamin Harrison Kline) (1894–1974) | www.vintoz.com
November 12, 2025

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

Being constantly in danger from reckless cowpunchers and other perils, Benjamin H. Kline’s life is just one thrill after another

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H. T. Cowling — Little Close-Ups of the A. S. C. (1922) 🇺🇸
November 12, 2025

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

Who’s Who will tell you all about H. T. Cowling, but here is enough to introduce him to the reader

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Tony Gaudio (Gaetano Gaudio) (1883–1951) | www.vintoz.com
November 12, 2025

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

The good natured face that here looks out at you is Tony Gaudio

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Victor Milner (1893–1972) | www.vintoz.com
November 11, 2025

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

Victor 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

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Eugene Joseff (“Joseff of Hollywood”) (1905–1948) (with his brother Jimmy Glaser (left) | www.vintoz.com
November 10, 2025

Eugene Joseff — Joe, the Bead-Stringer (1943) 🇺🇸

You don’t know Hollywood unless you’ve heard the story of one of its most colorful personalities — jeweler Eugene Joseff

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Sol Polito — Little Close-Ups of the A. S. C. (1922) 🇺🇸
November 09, 2025

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

Sol Polito is, like Eugene Gaudio and Tony Gaudio, a son of Italy, and like them, he is very popular among his fellows

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Colin Campbell (James Colin Campbell) (1859–1928) | www.vintoz.com
November 09, 2025

Director James Colin Campbell — Ne’er Do Well in Panama (1915) 🇺🇸

Colin Campbell (1859–1928) is just as averse to having his engraved likeness appear in print as he is to a published biography

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Harris Thorpe (1889–1972) | www.vintoz.com
November 08, 2025

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

The handsome young American who looks out at you here is Harris Thorpe

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Alvin Wyckoff (1877–1957) | www.vintoz.com
November 08, 2025

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

Alvin Wyckoff: “The camera must always come first. No matter what happens the motion picture photographer must keep on turning”

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