Edward C. Earle

(b. **/**/1877 – d. **/**/****) Cinematographer, cinema manager. A brother-in-law of movie pioneer Siegmund Lubin, Edward C. Earle at one stage ran Lubin’s twin theatres in Baltimore, but by 1912 he features in a photograph that depicts the cameramen who worked for the Lubin Manufacturing Company. The IMDb lists 16 films that he shot between 1915 and 1923, 10 of them for director Edgar Lewis. In 1920 Earle accompanied director Leander De Cordova to South Africa to shoot Swallow (released 1922), based on a story by H. Rider Haggard. By 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 and in 1929 the Motion Picture News had him running the Manor Theater on Coney Island Avenue in Brooklyn for the Schwartz Circuit. He should not be confused with Canadian-born actor Edward Earle. (FO)