Joseph Rosenthal (camera operator)

Joseph 'Joe' Rosenthal (1864-1946) was a British camera operator who specialised in filming wars and travel subjects. Conflicts he filmed include the Second Boer War and the Russo-Japanese War. Though preceded as a war filmmaker by some amateurs, film historian Stephen Bottomore has called him the first 'true professional' to film a war.[1]

Joseph Rosenthal with tent and cine camera during Second Boer War
  1. ^ Bottomore, Stephen, 'Joseph Rosenthal: The Most Glorious Profession', Sight and Sound, vol. 52 no. 4, Autumn 1983, p. 265

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