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Karl Struss

AKA: Carlo Struss
Birthday: 1886-11-30
Died: 1981-12-16
Birthplace: New York City, New York, USA


From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Karl Struss, A.S.C. (November 30, 1886 – December 15, 1981) was an American photographer and a cinematographer of the 1900s through the 1950s. He was also one of the earliest pioneers of 3-D films. While he mostly worked on films, such as F. W. Murnau's Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans and Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator and Limelight, he was also one of the cinematographers for the television series Broken Arrow and photographed 19 episodes of My Friend Flicka. In 1919, after his discharge from WWI, he moved to Los Angeles and signed on with Cecil B. DeMille as a cameraman, initially for the film For Better, For Worse starring Gloria Swanson, followed by another Swanson film Male and Female and leading to a two-year contract with the studio In early 1921, he married Ethel Wall, who helped to support him in his photographic work independent of the film studios, which included pictorial views set in California In the 1920s, Struss worked on such films as Ben-Hur and F. W. Murnau's Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans. In 1927, he contracted with United Artists, where he worked with D. W. Griffith on such films as Drums of Love and also filmed Mary Pickford's first talking film Coquette. He continued his experimental work with camera technology, developing the "Lupe Light" and a new bracket system for the Bell & Howell camera. From 1931 through 1945, Struss worked as a cameraman for Paramount, where he worked on a variety of material including films featuring Mae West, Bing Crosby, and Dorothy Lamour Struss also aimed to shape the field through publishing; for example, in 1934 he authored "Photographic Modernism and the Cinematographer" for American Cinematographer. Struss was later admitted to the American Society of Cinematographers, and was a founding member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts. In 1949, while working as a freelancer, he began his work in "stereo cinematography", becoming one of the first proponents of that art form. Unfortunately, he did most of his 3D film work in Italy and none of his films were subsequently released in 3D in the United States. Struss's photographic archive of exhibition prints, film stills, negatives and papers (3 linear feet of materials) is available at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art located in Fort Worth, Texas.

Filmography

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Job: Director of Photography
The Great Dictator
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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Island of Lost Souls
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Siren of Atlantis
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Journey into Fear
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Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
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The Fly
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The Deerslayer
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Limelight
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Rocketship X-M
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It's a Small World
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Attila
Job: Camera Operator
Hell's Four Hundred
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The Texan Meets Calamity Jane
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She Devil
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Island of Lost Men
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Fool's Paradise
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The Return of Jesse James
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Tarzan's Magic Fountain
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Riding High
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Rainbow Island
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Forgotten Commandments
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Dancers in the Dark
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Two Nights with Cleopatra
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The Macomber Affair
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Call of the Forest
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Hello Out There
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Two for Tonight
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Zenobia
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Abraham Lincoln
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The Preview Murder Mystery
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The Star Maker
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The Road to Reno
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Suspense
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And the Angels Sing
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Lady Possessed
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Paris Honeymoon
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Caught in the Draft
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Aloma of the South Seas
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Two Kinds of Women
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Torch Singer
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Poverty and Nobility
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The Bad One
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Tarzan and the Leopard Woman
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Kronos
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Machete
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Four Frightened People
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Tonight Is Ours
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The Sign of the Cross
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The Man from Yesterday
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The Alligator People
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Something to Think About
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Tarzan's Peril
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Counterplot
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Rose of Cimarron
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Every Day's a Holiday
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Minnie
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Here Is My Heart
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The Story of Temple Drake
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Hollywood Boulevard
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The Taming of the Shrew
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Funniest Show on Earth
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Neapolitan Turk
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The Dude Goes West
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Thanks for the Memory
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Be Yourself!
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Mesa of Lost Women
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Domenica a Capri
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Anything Goes
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The World and the Flesh
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Disgraced!
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Mohawk
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Go West Young Man
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Too Many Parents
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One Romantic Night
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Goin' to Town
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Happy Go Lucky
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Thorns and Orange Blossoms
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Sparrows
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Skippy
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The Battle of the Sexes
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Night Watch
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Forever After
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Up Pops the Devil
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The Woman Accused
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Poor Men's Wives
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Coquette
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Danger Lights
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Lummox
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Bring on the Girls
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Babe Comes Home
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Let's Make a Million
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Mountain Music
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Sing, You Sinners
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Belle of the Nineties
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Mothers-in-Law
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Mississippi
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Saturday Night
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Tarzan's Savage Fury
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