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October, 1926
AMERICAN CINEMATOGRAPHE R
Seven
Charles Rosher, A. S. C. (left) at camera on location at Old Heidelberg. The hat which Rosher has donned was purchased for the fabulous sum of seventy-five cents in American money from one of the German Wandervoegel (wandering minstrels) whom he met at Heidelberg.
Rosher Returns/tfPhotograph Murnau Feature
ff A. S. G. Member Comes from Germany where He Has Been Under Contract to "Ufa" for Past Year.
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Charles Rosher, A.S.C., has returned to Hollywood from Berlin, where he has been under contract to "Ufa" for the past year, for the purpose of photographing the first American production of F. W. Murnau, director of "The Last Laugh."
With Fox
Rosher comes back to Hollywood through arrangements effected between Ufa and the William Fox organization, which is producing the Murnau film. The A.S.C. memberber has already taken up his duties on the feature, for which he is at present on location at Lake Arrowhead Another Contract
Reports that Rosher had signed a cinematographic contract with British National, who, the producers of "Nell Gwyn," are to release through Famous Players-Lasky, were verified on the return to Southern California of the A.S.C. member. However, the agreement with the English organization does not call for the famous cinematographer's duties to begin until a later date, before which, it is stated, he is to do the photography on the next vehicle for Mary Pickford, for whom he has been chief cinematographer in all of her greatest productions.
Rosher's stay in Germany was notable. As one of the outstanding members of the cinematographic profession in America, he was accorded signal honors bv his fellow work
"Prosit," and Rosher — as a close inspection of his glass ivill reveal — drank in water! All of which shows that he is a lawabiding citizen, even when abroad. But in the "schooners" — well, that's different; they are being skippered by Heidelberg students.
ers in the German studios.
The trip just concluded was not the first made by Rosher to the continent. It was as a result of a jaunt to Europe last year that his contract with
Ufa came about. Previously he had, through special arrangements with Miss Pickford, filmed an important production which was made by Italian producers in Italy.