Karl Freund, an innovative director of photography responsible for development of the three-camera system used to shoot television situation comedies, was born on January 16, 1890, in the Bohemian city of Koeniginhof, then part of the Austria-Hungarian Empire , as he provided them with quality films of each show that could be easily syndicated into perpetuity, whereas the live shows filmed secondarily off of flickering TV monitors as kinescopes could not. After retiring as a cinematographer, Freund continued his research at the Photo Research Corp. He died on May 3, 1969.
Head cinematographer for many years on the "I Love Lucy" Show.
Developed the 3-camera system of filming television shows while working on "I Love Lucy" , which is still used to this day.
Weighed 360 pounds.
Member of A.S.C. (American Society of Cinematographers).
He soon became a demanded cinematographer who often worked together with two of the than greatest movie stars - Asta Nielsen and Henny Porten.
Karl Freund was among other married with the actress Gertrude Hoffmann.
Thank to his great successes of his movies Karl Freund soon was spotted for the American film business as well. From 1930 he shot numerous movies in the USA and some his most popular works belong to the horror genre.
The cinematographer Karl Freund belonged to the most important cinematographers of the German silent film and he took part in many important productions of the 10s and 20s.
He began is professional career as a film projectionist in cinemas in 1906, later he deviated to the cinematography. In this function he became active for the movie "Heisses Blut" (1911) for the first time.
