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Karl Brown (I) (1896–1990)

Writer | Cinematographer | Camera and Electrical Department

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Former still photographer and lab technician, first associated with director D.W. Griffith as minor actor, then assistant to cinematographer G.W. Bitzer. Invented the double-printing technique used for the crucifixion scenes in Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages, on which he worked as second cameraman. Later perfected the miniature projection process... See more trivia »

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in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, USA

Died:

(age 93) in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA
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1959-1960 Death Valley Days (TV series)
– A Girl Named Virginia (1960) (written by)
– The Wedding Dress (1960) (written by)
– Perilous Refuge (1959) (story)
 
1956 The Millionaire (TV series)
– The Harvey Borden Story (1956) (writer)
 
1956 Sheriff of Cochise (TV series)
– Caine and Abel (1956) (writer)
 
1953 The Vanquished (story)
 
1945 The Chicago Kid (story)
 
1943 The Ape Man (story "They Creep in the Dark")
 
1942 Hitler--Dead or Alive
 
1942 Phantom Killer (screenplay)
 
1941 Harvard, Here I Come! (story)
 
1941 Under Fiesta Stars (screenplay / story)
 
1941 I Was a Prisoner on Devil's Island
 
1941 Rookies on Parade (screenplay)
 
1941 Mr. District Attorney (screenplay)
 
1941 Prairie Pioneers (original idea)
 
1940 Before I Hang (story)
 
1940 Girl from Havana
 
1940 Military Academy
 
1940 Gangs of Chicago
 
1940 The Man with Nine Lives (screenplay)
 
1939 My Son Is Guilty (story)
 
1939 A Woman Is the Judge (writer)
 
1939 The Man They Could Not Hang (screenplay)
 
1938 Gangster's Boy (story)
 
1938 Port of Missing Girls (original screenplay)
 
1937 Federal Bullets (adaptation)
 
1937 Girl Loves Boy (story)
 
1937 Join the Marines (story)
 
1936 White Legion (story and screenplay)
 
1936 In His Steps
 
1936 Hearts in Bondage (adaptation)
 
1935 The Calling of Dan Matthews
 
1935 One in a Million
 
1934 The Curtain Falls
 
1934 City Park (story and screenplay)
 
1934 Stolen Sweets (story and screenplay)
 
1933 Fast Workers (continuity)
 
1932 Flames (adaptation / story "Fire Alarm")
 
1929 The Mississippi Gambler (story)
 
1927 Stark Love
 
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1926 Mannequin
 
1925 The Pony Express
 
1925 Marry Me
 
1925 Beggar on Horseback
 
1925 Welcome Home
 
1925 The Goose Hangs High
 
1924 The Garden of Weeds
 
1924 The City That Never Sleeps
 
1924 Merton of the Movies
 
1924 The Enemy Sex
 
1924 Leap Year (photographed by)
 
1924 The Fighting Coward
 
1923 To the Ladies
 
1923 Ruggles of Red Gap
 
1923 Hollywood
 
1923 The Covered Wagon
 
1922 Thirty Days
 
1922 The Old Homestead
 
1922 The Dictator
 
1922 Is Matrimony a Failure?
 
1922 One Glorious Day
 
1921 Crazy to Marry
 
1921 Gasoline Gus
 
1921 Traveling Salesman
 
1921 The Dollar-a-Year Man
 
1921 Brewster's Millions
 
1920 Life of the Party
 
1920 The Fourteenth Man
 
1920 The City of Masks
 
1918 Battling Jane
 
1917 Her Official Fathers
 
1917 Stage Struck
 
1916 The Traveling Salesman
 
Show ShowCamera and Electrical Department (16 titles)
1920 Always Audacious (assistant camera)
 
1919 Scarlet Days (camera operator)
 
1919 True Heart Susie (camera operator)
 
1919 Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl (camera operator - uncredited)
 
1919 The Girl Who Stayed at Home (camera operator)
 
1919 A Romance of Happy Valley (camera operator)
 
1918 The Greatest Thing in Life (camera operator)
 
1918 The Great Love (camera operator)
 
1918 Hearts of the World (second camera operator - uncredited)
 
1916 Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (associate photographer)
 
1916 The Mystery of the Leaping Fish (short) (assistant camera - uncredited)
 
1915 The Birth of a Nation (camera operator - uncredited)
 
1914 The Avenging Conscience: or 'Thou Shalt Not Kill' (camera operator)
 
1914 The Escape (camera operator - uncredited)
 
1914 Home, Sweet Home (assistant camera - uncredited)
 
1914 The Battle of the Sexes (camera operator - uncredited)
 
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1938 Under the Big Top
 
1938 Barefoot Boy
 
1938 Numbered Woman
 
1938 Port of Missing Girls
 
1937 Federal Bullets
 
1937 Michael O'Halloran
 
1936 White Legion
 
1936 In His Steps
 
1932 Flames
 
1930 Prince of Diamonds
 
1927 His Dog
 
1927 Stark Love
 
Show ShowActor (2 titles)
1916 Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
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1914 Home, Sweet Home
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1927 Stark Love (producer)
 
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1980 Hollywood (TV mini-series documentary)
Himself
– Trick of the Light (1980) … Himself
– Out West (1980) … Himself
– Autocrats (1980) … Himself
– Hollywood Goes to War (1980) … Himself
– Single Beds and Double Standards (1980) … Himself
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1993 American Masters (TV series documentary)
 

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(1953) Novel "The Cup of Trembling" , Duell, Sloane & Pearce; about the son of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick William Stowe. (1974) Memoir about his early days in the film industry: "Adventures with D.W.Griffith", London: Secker & Warburg. See more »

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Trivia:

Former still photographer and lab technician, first associated with director D.W. Griffith as minor actor, then assistant to cinematographer G.W. Bitzer. Invented the double-printing technique used for the crucifixion scenes in Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages, on which he worked as second cameraman. Later perfected the miniature projection process... See more »

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