American cinematographer (Jan-Dec 1924)

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Eight AMERICAN CINEMATOGRAPHER July, 1924 William [Daddy] Paley Crosses Great Divide Dean of Cinematographers Goes to Rest After Eventful Career in the Cinema. If Paley Early Associated with Edison. Made Pictures of Spanish-American War. rJjjm William Paley A legion of friends are mourning the death of William ("Daddy") Paley, generally recognized as the first professional motion picture cameraman in America as well as the dean of cinematographers, who passed away in Los Angeles, Saturday, May 31. Funeral services for the veteran among veterans were held at the Church of Our Mary of the Angels, Tuesday morning, elevn o'clock, June third, the Rev. Neal Dodd officiating. Alois Heimerl, Victor Milner, William Fildew, all A. S. C. members, and brother Masons of Mr. Paley were pallbearers. Interment was in the Forest Lawn Cemetery, Glendale, California. Mr. Paley was an honorary member of the American Society of Cinematographers, having been so elected on November 14th, 1921, in recognition of his services and contributions to the cinematographic profession. "Daddy's" death leaves Thomas A. Edison as the only honorary member of the A. S. C. William Paley was born at Boston, Lincolnshire, England, March 1, 1857. He was educated at the famous South Kensington Museum, and took his first picture when he was only ten years of age. It was a tin-type. He left South Kensington to enter the English secret service and served two years at Scotland Yard ; but America and art called him, and on October 22, 1878, he landed in New York intending to open a photographic studio, but almost immediately he joined the Automatic Photograph Company, under the management of B. J. Falk, and for several years was superintendent of the plant which he developed into the largest in the world. Among his achievements was the invention of a printing and developing machine with a capacity of 100,000 finished cabinet size photographs every ten hours, and the machine ran to capacity production daily for years, the output being contracted for by the American Tobacco Company and other large concerns, which gave them away as prizes. It was not until 1892 that Mr. Paley began to experiment with motion pictures. He was the first man in America to take an interest in the investigation of the French and English pioneers along these lines, and by 1894 he had perfected a motion camera which turned out to be the first ever used in war or for news film service. About this time he became acquainted with Thomas A. Edison, who had made exhaustive research along the (Continued on Page 16)