I. Roseman

Roseman worked for a London studio photographer until 1904, when he left to join Will Barker’s [qv] Autoscope Company. One of his first jobs was apparently to print the film ‘Whaling in the Shetlands’ (1904). In 1905 Roseman moved to the United States to work for the Biograph and Vitagraph companies, but he soon returned to London where he rejoined Barker at the Warwick Trading Company. In 1906 Barker sent him ‘to join the Wellman Polar Expedition to go to the North Pole by airship,' although it seems that John Avery also filmed the expedition for Warwick. In 1908 Roseman was sent to Central America, and in 1909 he filmed an Arctic trip for the firm of Rayleigh and Robert. On his return he joined the London branch of Pathe, and in May 1909 filmed the ‘Collapse of First British Army Dirigible.' Roseman apparently worked on Pathe’s Animated Gazette from its launch in June 1910, and in January 1911 he was sent by them to film the Siege of Sidney Street. In 1912 he joined Bloomfield [qv] and McDowell [qv] at the British and Colonial Kinematograph Company, and acted as cameraman on ‘The Battle of Waterloo’ (1913), and ‘Through the Clouds’ (1913). Roseman left B. & C. in 1920 to join Lucoque-Taylor Productions, for whom he photographed ‘Castles in Spain’ (1920). In February 1923 he was part of the camera team that filmed the ‘KING’S GREAT WELCOME AT THE OPENING OF PARLIAMENT’ for Daily Sketch Topical Budget No.599-1, and in April 1923 he was part of the team that filmed the wedding of the Duke of York for Daily Sketch Topical Budget No.609-2. Roseman continued to work in the film industry, and in 1936 was Kodak’s representative in Germany.

Sources

Kine Year Book 1921, p.593, ‘I. Roseman’: W. G. Barker in ‘Proceedings of the BKS,' Number 38 (1936), p.14: NFTVA, Luke McKernan’s biographical index of Topical Budget staff.