Theodor Sparkuhl，The son of a bank director, he began his career as a salesman of film projectors in 1911. He was trained as a camera operator at Gaumont in 1912 and, thereafter, worked steadily as a newsreel cameraman until the end of World War I. He became a full director of photography in 1918, remaining in German films until 1928 (including several pictures ... See more trivia »