November 2024
Aces of the Camera: Charles Rosher, ASC
“Aces of the Camera” was a profile series that ran in AC for several years starting in the early 1940s. This article was originally published in AC Sept. 1941. If you were a movie-goer during the years when Mary Pickford was “America’s Sweetheart,” you probably saw many a 24-sheet billboard advertising her films. And on these billboards, in addition to Miss Pickford’s name, the title of the picture, and mention of the supporting cast, you’d see, in letters every bit as large and prominent as those naming the director, “Photographed by Charles Rosher.” It wasn’t, as it would be today, “Charles Rosher, ASC,” because at that time there simply wasn't any ASC for Rosher or anybody else to belong to. He remedied that in 1919 when, with Victor...more
