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In January 1921, he accompanied director [[Leander De Cordova]] and production manager [[Leon D. Britton]] to South Africa to shoot [[Swallow]] (released 1922), based on a story by [[H. Rider Haggard]] and starring British imports [[Joan Morgan]] and [[Hayford Hobbs]] for [[African Film Productions]]. He returned to the United States in December 1921 and in February 1924 the Film Daily reported that he was representing Bioscope Improvements Ltd. of Johannesburg, marketing a device to do away with having to rewind films after projecting them. In 1929 the Motion Picture News had him running the Manor Theater on Coney Island Avenue in Brooklyn for the Schwartz Circuit, while according to the 1940 Census he was a checker in the film industry. | In January 1921, he accompanied director [[Leander De Cordova]] and production manager [[Leon D. Britton]] to South Africa to shoot [[Swallow]] (released 1922), based on a story by [[H. Rider Haggard]] and starring British imports [[Joan Morgan]] and [[Hayford Hobbs]] for [[African Film Productions]]. He returned to the United States in December 1921 and in February 1924 the Film Daily reported that he was representing Bioscope Improvements Ltd. of Johannesburg, marketing a device to do away with having to rewind films after projecting them. In 1929 the Motion Picture News had him running the Manor Theater on Coney Island Avenue in Brooklyn for the Schwartz Circuit, while according to the 1940 Census he was a checker in the film industry. | ||
| − | + | (According to one newspaper report he was a brother-in-law of Siegmund Lubin, but this has not been confirmed. His wife's name was Lena/Helen. He should not be confused with Canadian-born actor Edward Earle.) (FO) | |
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(b. New York, 04/04/1876 – d. **/**/****) Cinematographer, theatre manager. Born in Brooklyn, Edward Crossley Earle went to work for the Philadelphia-based German-American movie pioneer Siegmund Lubin and when Lubin's, the first twin theatre in Baltimore, was being upgraded, it was announced that Earle would be its resident manager. However, not long afterwards it was reported that he would be managing the new Victoria Theatre in Lawrence, Massachusetts.
By 1913 his career had changed direction, as he appears in a photograph of "Lubin Photographic Staff". He appears to have worked on a number of shorts with director Lloyd B. Carleton at the Lubin Manufacturing Company, but achieved his greatest success with the features he shot for Edgar Lewis, first at Lubin and later when Lewis branched out on his own. The IMDb lists 17 films that he shot between 1915 and 1923, 10 of them for Lewis.
In January 1921, he accompanied director Leander De Cordova and production manager Leon D. Britton to South Africa to shoot Swallow (released 1922), based on a story by H. Rider Haggard and starring British imports Joan Morgan and Hayford Hobbs for African Film Productions. He returned to the United States in December 1921 and in February 1924 the Film Daily reported that he was representing Bioscope Improvements Ltd. of Johannesburg, marketing a device to do away with having to rewind films after projecting them. In 1929 the Motion Picture News had him running the Manor Theater on Coney Island Avenue in Brooklyn for the Schwartz Circuit, while according to the 1940 Census he was a checker in the film industry.
(According to one newspaper report he was a brother-in-law of Siegmund Lubin, but this has not been confirmed. His wife's name was Lena/Helen. He should not be confused with Canadian-born actor Edward Earle.) (FO)
Sources
The Film Daily, 26 February 1924
De Cordova, Leander - Picture making in South Africa (Film Year Book 1922-23)
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0247306/?ref_=fn_nm_nm_1
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