title: Don Malkames
text: # 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)
  