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Cullen Landis with Camera
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Original caption: "Cullen Landis, who has become one of the screen's most popular figures, used to be a camera-man, or cinematographer, as they say in French. Since Cullen won his Goldwyn contract he devotes all his time to acting, with a little hunting and fishing on the side."
1917
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Fred Niblo and Two Young Women
August 23, 1926
Director Fred Niblo poses between two unidentifed young women in front of a cameraman and his Debrie Interview motion picture camera in a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer publicity still.
Production Still with Harry Beaumont, Bryant Washburn and Hazel Daly
1917
Essanay silent film director Harry Beaumont, wearing tinted pince-nez, watches Bryant Washburn and Hazel Daly act out a scene for "Filling His Own Shoes." The cameraman Will E. Smith cranks a Bell ...
Cullen Landis in a Racing Car
1921
Goldwyn silent film star Cullen Landis behind the wheel of a racing car with 1921 California license plates. Original caption: "Here's Cullen Landis in his high-powered racing car."
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.
Cullen Landis and a Bulldog
1918
Cullen Landis, an actor in many Paramount and Goldwyn silent films, posed with a bulldog and a pipe.
Mack Sennett and his Mother
1922
Silent film producer and director Mack Sennett, wearing at least two sweaters, with his mother and a Bell & Howell motion picture camera in a heavily retouched press photograph.
