Don Malkames
# Don Malkames

Don Malkames (April 7, 1904 – November 24, 1986) was a cinematographer and inventor in the history of motion picture technology.

## Life and work

Malkames began his career at age 17 as an assistant cameraman at Hollywood's William Fox Studio. During the 1930s, he worked in the New York area as a director of photography; he was for several years head of the camera department at the Astoria Studios.

Malkames also invented a lenticular motion-picture process, designed a newsreel camera and served as a technical adviser to several film museums across the country.

He was the father of cinematographer Karl Malkames.

He died at 82 in Yonkers, New York.

### Select features as cinematographer

* The Shadow Laughs (1933)
* Victims of Persecution (1933)
* Kol Nidre (1939)
* Paradise in Harlem (1939)
* Motel the Operator (1940)
* Overture to Glory (1940)
* Eli Eli (1940)
* Her Second Mother (1940)
* The Jewish Melody (1940)
* The Great Advisor (1940)
* The Music Master (Le Père Chopin) (1945)
* That Man of Mine (1946)
* Beware (1946)
* Hi-De-Ho (1947)
* Citizen Saint (1947)
* Reet, Petite, and Gone (1947)
* Junction 88 (1947)
* Miracle in Harlem (1948)
* Jigsaw (1949)
* Project X (1949)
* Sarumba (1950)
* Cry Murder (1950)
* So Young So Bad (1950)
* St. Benny the Dip (1951)
* That Man from Tangier (1953)
* Basin Street Revue (1956)
* The Burglar (1957)
* Terror in the City (1964)
