Ernest B. Schoedsack
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Ernest Beaumont Schoedsack (June 8, 1893-1979) was an American motion picture cinematographer, producer, and director.
He appeared in numerous films with Merian C. Cooper, including King Kong and Chang: A History of the Wilderness.
Early life
Ernest B. Schoedsack was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa, on June 8, 1893. At the age of fourteen, he escaped from home and joined road gangs. He went to San Francisco, where he worked as a surveyor. He grew to be 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m), and his friends called him "Shorty."
Later life
Ruth Rose was born on Schoedsack's birthday in 1978. Schoedsack died in Los Angeles on December 23, 1979. They are laid to rest at the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles.
Film career
Schoedsack began his film career in 1914 when he became a cameraman for Mack Sennett. In World War I, he continued serving as a cameraman. In 1918, he served in the Signal Corps of the United States Army in France. He also served in combat bombing missions. He stayed in Europe furthering his career as a cameraman after the war. In World War I, his eyesight was severely impaired, but he went on to film afterward. Schoedsack helped refugees in Poland flee the Polish-Soviet War in 1920. He served with the American Red Cross. He also assisted refugees from the Greco-Turkish War in 1921 and 1922. He was hired by The New York Times as a cameraman on a trip around the world after studying at the Columbia University School of Military Cinematography.
Schoedsack began as a co-director with Merian C. Cooper. In 1918 in Vienna, he first met Cooper. Both worked for The New York Times until then, but they eventually decided to make their own films. Grass, which was created in 1925, was their first collaboration. Ruth Rose, a screenwriter and former actress who would later marry her in 1926, was the same year Schoedsack met screenwriter and actress Ruth Rose in 1926. They met on a trip to Galapagos Islands, where Schoedsack was the cameraman on that trip and Rose was the official historian.
Cooper and Schoedsack produced the film Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness, which portrays a man's survival in the Northern Siamese jungle in 1927. In order to produce the film and photograph certain scenes, Schoedsack and Cooper spent 18 months in the jungle. Although filming the film, the stampeding elephants that were included in the film almost killed Schoedsack and his crew. Nevertheless, the risk was worth it, and Chang was later named Best Picture at the first Academy Awards show. In his office, Schoedsack retained a print of a Bengal tiger pouncing with its jaws open. Schoedsack replied that the tiger had sprung and shot it when a reporter was asked about the photograph.
The pair created The Four Feathers film in 1929. It was the first fiction film on which Schoedsack and Cooper worked. It was also one of Hollywood's last silent films.
Although Schoedsack and Cooper directed several other films together, they are best known for directing King Kong, 1933. Schoedsack joined Cooper in the production of King Kong after completing work on The Most Dangerous Game. Schoedsack concentrated on human actors, while Cooper handled the special effects. The characters of John Driscoll, Carl Denham, and Ann Darrow respectively were influenced by Schoedsack, Cooper, and Rose. Rose, Schoedsack's wife, co-wrote the script. This film marked a change in Schoedsack and Cooper's working relationship. Schoedsack directed films after the film, though Cooper produced them. However, their friendship came to an end in the late 1930s.
Schoedsack worked on shooting for a film that never had been finished called Arabia in 1932. Schoedsack carried out a gunman on location in Syria for this mission. In the King Kong franchise, another film was made. Rose wrote the screenplay for Son of Kong, the next film in RKO's 1933 film. Schoedsack was the sole filmmaker of the film. Rose and Schoedsack appeared on the film Blind Adventure in 1933.
Schoedsack produced several other films in the 1930s, including The Last Days of Pompeii, The Struggle in Morocco, and Outlaws of the Orient. Dr. Cyclops, Hollywood's first science fiction film in technicolor, was directed by Schoedsack in 1940. By RKO in 1949, Mighty Joe Young was released and was directed by Schoedsack. It was a reunion film starring Cooper, Schoedsack, and Ruth Rose of the main King Kong creative team. Schoedsack will direct this film after suffering eye injury in World War II from testing photography equipment.