The Fireman Clippings 33/42
Motion Picture News, New York, October 21, 1916.
The Fireman Scenes
„Personally Directs“
Editorial content. „Charles Spencer Chaplin, World‘s
Foremost Comedian, Personally Directs All Scenes of Mutual
Super Comedies
THE Lone Star Studio is the home of Charlie Chaplin and
of the world‘s super comedies, which are released on the
Mutual Program. Situate on the fringe of the motion-picture
studio area in Hollywood, it occupies a whole block and
is probably the most pleasant studio in California.
The world‘s greatest comedian directs his own productions
and conceives the great majority of the situations and
stories himself. He is assisted by Vincent Bryan, writer of a
thousand lyrics and song hits, and owes much to the
technical skill of Ed. Brewer, his mechanical director, George
Cleethorpe (,Scotty‘), his art director and master of
properties, in the productions themselves. Roland Totheroh
and ,Duke Zalibra are his cameramen and their splendid
photography is handled in the laboratories by Charles Levin,
one of the most skilled chemical experts in the profession.
The plant is presided over by Henry P. Caulfield,
the general manager, and his lieutenant, Fred H. Bagley,
the former being largely responsible for the warm
cooperative spirit which characterizes the entire Chaplin
forces.
The company of players is headed by Miss Edna
Purviance, the popular leading-lady, and Eric Campbell, the
three-hundred-pound comedy-villain whose work has
attracted so much attention since the first Chaplin-Mutual
story The Floorwalker was released.“ (...)
Nine Chaplin Staff Portrait Photos.
Fred Bagley, Asst. to Gen‘l Manager
Vincent Bryan, Scenario Writer
Maverick Terrell, Staff Writer
Fred Goodwins, Press Representative
Roland Totheroh, Cameraman
A. C. (Duke) Zalibra, Asst. Cameraman
Charles Levin, Supt. of Laboratories
Ed. Brewer, Technical Director
George Cleethorpe, Master of Properties
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