Movies: James Wong Howe

In this unsold television pilot for a proposed travelogue series, Richard Erdman visits with the children and townsfolk of the Sacromonte district of Granada, Spain. Directed and photographed by noted master cinematographer and multi-Academy Award wi...

A wild dancer in a cheap Seville cafe, Mariposa is taken to New York by Señor Sprott, a prominent theatrical producer. Billed as "The Charmer," Mariposa becomes the toast of two continents. Among her most ardent admirers are Ralph Bayne, a millionair...

Young Austrian Archduke Paul "Gustl" Gustave is in an arranged engagement but his uncle, the emperor, decides to let Gustl carry on a fling with ballet dancer Lisl Gluck....

Returning from World War I, Glenn Kilbourne travels to Arizona to regain his health. He meets a local girl, Flo Hutler, who helps him recover. His fiancee, Carley Burch, follows him to Arizona but soon decides she'd rather go back to New York. When F...

An English circus clown finds he's lost his touch after returning from war....

Love complicates the hunt for gold in 1890's Alaska....

A lonely young woman sings two melancholy ballads in her Manhattan high rise apartment....

James Wong Howe follows artist Dong Kingman over the course of a day, in which the maestro starts and finishes a watercolor of a street in New York City....

After his wife deserts him, a doctor is obliged to abandon his practice in order to care for his infant son and ends up working as a janitor. This was the first Japanese language talking picture produced by an American production company....

1973 documentary about the Oscar-winning director of photography, featuring lighting tutorials with Howe....

The story of an unsung hero in filmmaking and the racial barriers he faced growing up and into his career, through archival footage of himself and his films, and what made his camerawork so innovative and unique....