Arthur Edeson, A.S.C.

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Born October 5, 1891
New York City, New York, USA
Died February 14, 1970 (aged 78)
Agoura Hills, California
Occupation Cinematographer
Influenced by James Whale
Title A.S.C. Founding Member
Board member of A.S.C. President (1953-1954)
Arthur Edeson, A.S.C. (October 24, 1891 – February 14, 1970) was a film cinematographer, born in New York City.[1]
He was nominated for three Academy Awards in his career in cinema.


[]Career

Edeson began his career as a still photographer, but turned to movies in 1911 as a camera operator at the American Éclair Studio in Fort Lee, New Jersey. When the Éclair Studio was reorganized as the World Film Corporation, he was promoted to chief cinematographer assigned to the star Clara Kimball Young.[2] Throughout the twenties, Edeson photographed a number of important films, including Douglas Fairbanks' Robin Hood (1922) and The Thief of Bagdad (1924), and the groundbreaking special effects film The Lost World (1925).
When sound came in, Edeson experimented with camouflaging the microphones in exterior shots. In Old Arizona (1929), the first sound film to be shot outside a studio, provided evidence to Hollywood executives that talking pictures need not be confined to the sound stage. The western was also the first 70 mm wide-screen process, known as "Grandeur."[3]
In the early thirties, perhaps his most memorable creative partnership was formed with director James Whale, for whom he photographed the first three of Whale's quartet of horror films: Frankenstein (1931), The Old Dark House (1932), and The Invisible Man (1933).
According to critic M. S. Fonseca, Edeson was one of the "master craftsmen" of the old American school. His principal work was on the side of realism, which is considered by most film historians to represent the "zenith of Hollywood photography." Edeson built on the influence of German Expressionism, brought to the America cinema by German cinematographers during the 1920s.[4]
Edeson was one of the founders of the American Society of Cinematographers in 1919.

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