Learning on ScreenCharles Crapper ("Charlie")
Profile
- Dates
- 1929-1937
- Role
- Cameraman
- Newsreels / Cinemagazines
- Topical Budget; PatheGazette
- Search
- Search for all stories where Charles Crapper is credited
- Notes
- Charlie Crapper’s son Grahame Crapper was killed at Tobruk in 1942, working for the Army Film Unit. Another son worked in a film laboratory.
Career
Charlie Crapper was a freelance cameraman who filmed for Topical Budget on a few occasions in the early 1920s, although his film was never used in the reel. In July 1929 Crapper filmed ‘HENLEY ROYAL REGATTA’ for Pathe Gazette No.1621, as the first of a number of freelance assignments for that company during 1929 and 1930. In March 1933 Crapper was also in the Pathe camera team that filmed ‘STEEPLECHASING’S ‘ASCOT’,' for Super Sound Gazette No.33/20. Crapper also filmed ‘THE GRAND NATIONAL, 1934’ for Pathe Super Sound Gazette No.34/25 of March 1934, ‘ROYAL SILVER JUBILEE’ for No.35/36 of May 1935, and ‘THE DERBY, 1937’ - his last credit - for No.37/44 of June 1937.
Sources
NFTVA, Luke McKernan’s biographical index of Topical Budget staff.
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