F. Cooper
Profile
- Dates
- 1918-1935
- Role
- Cameraman
- Newsreels / Cinemagazines
- War Office Official Topical Budget; PatheGazette
- Search
- Search for all stories where F. Cooper is credited
- Notes
- The Pathe May 1935 credit is ‘Coopers,' but is almost certainly a mistake for Cooper. This ‘Cooper’ may have been identical with ‘H.N. Cooper’, who was a cameraman for Weisker Brothers in November 1918, or possibly with ‘D.P. Cooper’, a travel and studio cameraman who filmed for D.W. Griffith’s propaganda feature film ‘Hearts Of The World’ in 1918: Kinematograph Weekly, 21 November 1918, p.65, ‘With the Camera-Men: H.N. Cooper’: Kine Year Book 1921, pp.590-91, ‘D.P. Cooper.'
Career
Cooper worked for Pathe before 1914, but during the war he was employed on a freelance basis by Wellington House and by the Department of Information. In March 1918 he was recruited as an official cameraman by the Ministry of Information, for whom he made propaganda films such as ‘Alder Hay Hospital Sports’ (1918), training films such as ‘Hounslow Motor Driving School’ (1918), and film of domestic military subjects for the War Office Official Topical Budget. As part of this work Cooper is known to have filmed the ‘Visit Of American Airmen To Stratford-On-Avon’ for No.368-1 of the Pictorial News (Official) in September 1918. ‘Cooper’ is also credited in the camera teams that filmed ‘THE GRAND NATIONAL, 1934’ for Pathe Super Sound Gazette No.34/25 of March 1934, and ‘GRAND NATIONAL, 1935’ for No.35/26 of April 1935. He was also in the camera team that filmed ‘ROYAL SILVER JUBILEE’ for No.35/36 in May 1935.
Sources
IWM, Stephen Badsey’s biographical index of British official cameramen, 1914-1918: NFTVA, Luke McKernan’s biographical index of Topical Budget staff.
How to cite this record
News on Screen, "F. Cooper". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/person/191 (Accessed 31 Jan 2025)