Don Malkames
Cinematographer and inventor
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Don Malkames (April 7, 1904 – November 24, 1986) was a cinematographer and inventor in the history of motion picture technology.
Don Malkames | |
|---|---|
| Born | Don Malkames April 7, 1904 |
| Died | November 24, 1986 |
| Occupation | Cinematographer |
Life and work
Malkames began his career at age 17 as an assistant cameraman at Hollywood's William Fox Studio. During the 1930s, he worked in the New York area as a director of photography; he was for several years head of the camera department at the Astoria Studios.
Malkames also invented a lenticular motion-picture process, designed a newsreel camera and served as a technical adviser to several film museums across the country.[1]
He was the father of cinematographer Karl Malkames.[2]
He died at 82 in Yonkers, New York.
Select features as cinematographer
- The Shadow Laughs (1933)
- Victims of Persecution (1933)
- Kol Nidre (1939)
- Paradise in Harlem (1939)
- Motel the Operator (1940)
- Overture to Glory (1940)
- Eli Eli (1940)
- Her Second Mother (1940)
- The Jewish Melody (1940)
- The Great Advisor (1940)
- The Music Master (Le Père Chopin) (1945)
- That Man of Mine (1946)
- Beware (1946)
- Hi-De-Ho (1947)
- Citizen Saint (1947)
- Reet, Petite, and Gone (1947)
- Junction 88 (1947)
- Miracle in Harlem (1948)
- Jigsaw (1949)
- Project X (1949)
- Sarumba (1950)
- Cry Murder (1950)
- So Young So Bad (1950)
- St. Benny the Dip (1951)
- That Man from Tangier (1953)
- Basin Street Revue (1956)
- The Burglar (1957)
- Terror in the City (1964)