After graduation from the University of California at Berkeley, Byron Haskin worked for a time as a newspaper cartoonist. He began his career in the film industry, in 1920, as a commercial-industrial movie photographer, and then as a cameraman for Pathe and International Newsreel. Later he became an assistant director at Selznick Productions. He was a cinematographer during the silent era, worked on special effects and helped to develop the technology that eventually brought sound to the fil ...[Read Story]
