Alvin Wyckoff

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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

  • 1914: The Spoilers
  • 1914: The Call of the North
  • 1914: The Virginian
  • 1914: Rose of the Rancho
  • 1914: The Girl of the Golden West
  • 1915: The Captive
  • 1915: The Arab
  • 1915: Kindling
  • 1915: Carmen
  • 1915: The Brand of Vengeance (The Cheat)
  • 1915: The Golden Chance
  • 1915: Temptation
  • 1916: Trail of the Lonesome Pine
  • 1916: Maria Rosa
  • 1916: The Dream Girl
  • 1916: The Maid of Orleans (Joan the Woman)
  • 1917: The Little American
  • 1917: The Woman God Forgot
  • 1917: The Devil Stone
  • 1918: Old Wives For New
  • 1918: Till I Come Back to You
  • 1918: The Squaw Man
  • 1919: Don't Change Your Husband
  • 1919: For Better For Worse
  • 1919: From servant to ruler (male and female)
  • 1920: aberrations of a marriage (Why Change Your Wife?)
  • 1921: Anatol, der Frauenretter (The Affairs of Anatol)
  • 1921: Fool's Paradise
  • 1922: Blood and Sand
  • 1922: Saturday Night
  • 1923: Women on the wrong track (Manslaughter)
  • 1923: Adam's rib (Adam's Rib)
  • 1923: The Man with the Two Women (Pleasure Mad)
  • 1924: Cleo, the street girl (Men)
  • 1924: The Commander's Wife (Lily of the Dust)
  • 1925: His Highness becomes engaged (The Swan)
  • 1925: Irish Luck
  • 1925: A Kiss in the Dark
  • 1926: The Canadian
  • 1926: The New Klondike
  • 1926: The husband of his wife (Tin Gods)
  • 1926: Blind Alleys
  • 1927: Spider Webs
  • 1929: City vampires (Night Ride)
  • 1930: Hell's Angels (Hell's Angels) (only special shots)
  • 1930: The Storm
  • 1932: If I Had a Million (If I had a million)
  • 1933: Wine, Women and Song
  • 1934: White Heat
  • 1934: Lost Jungle
  • 1935: Maria Elena
  • 1936: Zorro - the daredevil Caballero (The Bold Caballero)
  • 1937: A Street of Memory (short film)
  • 1942: The Magic Alphabet (short film)
  • 1943: Tips on Trips (short film)
  • 1945: A Message to Women (short film)

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.

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