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J. Peverell Marley, Cecil B. DeMille, and Camera
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J. Peverell Marley, cameraman (left), and Cecil B. DeMille, director (right), pose beside a Pathé motion picture camera mounted on a large tripod. An unidentified woman stands with them.
1922
Famous Players-Lasky Corporation
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Cameraman Alvin Wyckoff
1921
Cinematographer Alvin Wyckoff stands next to his Bell & Howell model 2709 motion picture camera on a set for the Cecil B. DeMille silent feature "Fool's Paradise" (Famous Players-Lasky 1921).
"Fool's Paradise" Production Still
1921
Left to right: Cecil B. DeMille (director), Anne Bauchens (film editor), Karl Struss (cinematographer, in glasses), Alvin Wyckoff (cinematographer), and other crew members working in the Siamese te...
Thomas Ince and William S. Hart production still
1915
Thomas H. Ince gestures to a cameraman who is moving a Bell & Howell camera on its tripod. Over Ince's shoulder is William S. Hart in costume as a minister for an unidentified silent film production.
"The Daughter of the Gods" Production Still
1916
From left to right: Cameraman J. Roy Hunt with a Pathé camera, Annette Kellerman (seated), and director Herbert Brenon pointing to a caravan scene in the valley below for the 1916 Fox Film Corporat...
Marguerite Clark
1917
Marguerite Clark looks through the viewfinder of a Pathé motion picture camera in a publicity still.
D.W. Griffith, Frank E. Woods and Billy Bitzer
1916
Director D.W. Griffith, seated with straw hat and large megaphone, confers with scriptwriter Frank E. Woods (bending, wearing a cloth cap), and cameraman G.W. Bitzer in a production still from "Int...
