Career
Brown also became a noteworthy director and screenwriter. Brown"s first entertainment-related job, while still in his teens, was working at a development lab for the United States. branch of the Kinemacolor Film Company in Los Los Angeles Brown was 17 when renowned film director Doctorate.W. Griffith and his crew came to take over the Kinemacolor Film Company in 1913.
Brown got in touch with camera man G.W. Bitzer and soon after became his assistant.
Brown assisted Bitzer during the filming of The Birth of a Nation (1915) and Intolerance (1916). His duties consisted of loading the camera with film, carrying the camera, and operating a second camera during the Ride of the Clan and the Fall of Babylon scenes.
After the collapse of Kinemacolor, he worked as a still photographer on The Spoilers (1914), having become enamored with Griffith"s work, especially The Battle at Elderbush Gulch (1913), The most successful film Brown worked on as cinematographer was the James Cruze film. Brown"s first directorial effort, Stark Love (1927), is today considered a rural cinematic masterpiece.
Brown was cinematographer on Wallace Reid"s last film.
In the 1970s, Brown was one of the Hollywood pioneers interviewed by Kevin Brownlow for Brownlow"s television series Hollywood (1980). In the series, Brown talked at length about Reid"s addiction and death.
