Alvin Wyckoff
Alvin Wyckoff (born July 3, 1877 in New York City , United States , † July 30, 1957 in Los Angeles ) was an American cameraman and pioneer of silent film photography.
Live and act
Wyckoff was trained as a photographer before the turn of the century. He joined the film before the outbreak of the First World War. From the beginning he worked closely with Cecil B. DeMille and worked almost exclusively for him until 1923. The native New Yorker later also filmed productions by central DeMille colleagues such as Dimitri Buchowetzki , Fred Niblo , Lewis Milestone and Allan Dwan . Wyckoff was involved in the development of a two-color Technicolor system at an early stage ; his color photographs are in individual sequences of famous early works such as DeMille's The Maiden of Orleans and Howard Hughes ' World War II filmTo see hell fliers .
Wyckoff's professional decline began in the first years of sound film. As a cameraman for full-length feature films he found no employment from the mid-1930s, and so he now concentrated on the further development of color film photography, which he, together with his colleague Jack Marta , most recently in 1936 for the B-Western Zorro - der daredevil Caballero , one of the first color films from the production company Republic Pictures .
Filmography
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literature
- Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 8: T - Z. David Tomlinson - Theo Zwierski. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 476.
Web links
- Alvin Wyckoff in the Internet Movie Database (English)
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SURNAME | Wyckoff, Alvin |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American cameraman |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 3, 1877 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City , United States |
DATE OF DEATH | July 30, 1957 |
Place of death | los Angeles |