Karl Freund

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1. 1890 age 0

   Born

2. 1920 age 30

   CreditThe Golem: How He Came into the Worldcinematographer

3. 1924 age 34

   CreditThe Last Laughcinematographer

4. 1927 age 37

   CreditMetropoliscinematographer

5. 1930 age 40

   CreditAll Quiet on the Western Frontcinematographer

6. 1931 age 41

   CreditDraculacinematographer

   CreditDraculadirector

7. 1932 age 42

   CreditThe Mummydirector

8. 1937 age 47

   CreditThe Good Earthcinematographer

9. 1940 age 50

   CreditPride and Prejudicecinematographer

10. 1948 age 58

    CreditKey Largocinematographer

11. 1969 age 79

    Died

• CJCarl Laemmle Jr.3 titles
• MAMaxwell Anderson2 titles
• JBJohn L. Balderston2 titles
• GJGeorg John2 titles
• OSOlaf Storm2 titles
• EPErich Pommer2 titles
• CHCharles D. Hall2 titles
• CGCedric Gibbons2 titles
• HSHerbert Stothart2 titles
• ESEdward Van Sloan2 titles

• Despite the 43 years I've devoted to cinematography, I must admit that I was scarcely prepared for the many problems which were to confront me upon my initial excursion into the realm of television with the I Love Lucy show. Fortunately, this motion picture experience helped to cushion many of the serious problems and aided me in adapting myself to this new medium.

  Karl Freund, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Retakes, a standard procedure on the Hollywood scene, are not desirable in making TV films with audience participation. Dubbed-in laughs are artificial and, consequently, used only in emergencies. Close-ups, another routine step in standard film-making, were discarded since such glamour treatment stood out like a sore thumb.

  Karl Freund, CC BY-SA 4.0

• The public acceptance of I Love Lucy and Our Miss Brooks has been a source of great inspiration for me. The challenge has been a real one — one I have found both stimulating and exciting.

  Karl Freund, CC BY-SA 4.0

• As I watch television films on my own set I am continually aware that I do not have a complete control of the end results. For there is an engineer in every television station control booth who can change the screen image according to his instructions and depending upon the condition of his equipment. And there are the TV viewers who are their own "engineers." I believe that the time is not too distant when the only engineers will be the technicians who actually create the film that is transmitted. Only when that day arrives will we really have film quality comparable to motion picture standards as we know them today.

  Karl Freund, CC BY-SA 4.0