Universal Filmlexikon (1932)

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BASIL EMMOTT 4, (Ihatsworlh, Riverdale Ro;uI, Twickenham Park, London T: Popesgrove 1703 X: GL AP • CA • CB phot: Cyrill Stanborough, London Basil Enimott entered the film industry on his deniobilisation from the Arniy in 1919. Before the war he had been a keen amateur photographer, with a projection theatre of his own, so that he was far from being a novice. Nevertheless, he preferred to start at the bottom of the ladder and worked his way up to cameraman through a painstaking apprenticeship. For ten years he was under contract to the Gaumont Company, after which he free-lanced for a year. Tn 1926 he filmed the first flight to the Cape with Sir Alan Cobham, editing and sub-titling the film hiniself. The sereen record of that epoch making flight was shown at practically every cinema in the British Isles, as well as in the Dominions and Colonies. The distinction of having taken the first photograph ever made of Victoria Falls also belongs to Basil Emmott. In 1929 he was engaged by Twickenham Studios as Joint chief cameraman, and has since made a number of pictures for that Company, including "The Rosary", which is his most notable talking film. In the earliest days of the talkie revolution he carried out some valuable experiments in both recording and photography for British Acoustic Films, the results of which have proved of incalculable benefit to the film industry. — Tndeed, Basil Emmott is an inveterate experimenter, with an insatiable ambition to find "something better ', and is recognized as one of the most brilliant cameramen in England. Basil Emmott trat nach seiner Demobilisierung im Jahre 1919 in die Filmindustrie ein. Er war kein Neuling: schon vor dem Kriege betätigte er sich als eifriger Amateurphotograph, besaß auch selbst ein Lichtspieltheater. Trotzdem zog er es vor, sich von unten emporzuarbeiten : er begann seinen Weg als Kameramann als unermüdlicher Hilfsoperateur. Zehn Jahre lang war Basil Emmott der Gaumont verpflichtet, worauf er ein Jahr selbständig arbeitete. 1926 kurbelte er den ersten Kapflug des Sir Alan Cobham, brachte den Film auch selbst heraus und beschriftete ihn. Der Filmrekord dieses epochemachenden Fluges wurde in jedem Lichtspieltheater Großbritanniens, der Dominien und Kolonien gezeigt. Auch der Ruhm, die ersten Filmaufnahmen von den Viktoria-Fällen gemacht zu haben, gebührt Basil Emmott. 1929 wurde er von den Twickenham Studios als erster Operateur verpflichtet und drehte seither eine Reihe von Filmen für diese Gesellschaft, unter andern ,.The Rosary", seinen bedeutendsten Tonfilm. In den frühesten Tagen der Filmrevolution durch den Tonfilm unternahm er bemerkenswerte Versuche in der Synchronisierung und Photographie für die British Acoustic Films, Versuche, die für die britische Tonfilmindustrie von unschätzbarem Wert waren. Basil Emmott ist ein alter leidenschaftlicher Experimentator, erfüllt von brennendem Ehrgeiz, immer etwas Besseres an die Stelle des Guten zu setzen; er ist unbestritten einer der ersten Kameraleute Englands. 455