Clarence Herbert New wrote stories from which Lloyd F. Lonergan created the scenarios for certain Thanhouser films released in 1914. In 1913 he created the scenario for a film which was never released.
Clarence Herbert New
A Thanhouser Company player, credited on 4 Thanhouser films. None is online, and no print of any is known to survive.
Biography
From Bowers’ encyclopedia entry. Read the full biography below ↓
Filmography
Thanhouser films
- 1914A Leak in the Foreign OfficeLost
- 1914The Cat’s PawLost
- 1914A Debut in the Secret ServiceLost
- 1914A Mohammedan ConspiracyLost
These have no online copy. Each page says what is known about where a print is held.
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From the encyclopedia
The full biography
From Volume III: Biographies of Q. David Bowers’ Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, reproduced with permission and unchanged. 122 words.
Clarence Herbert New was born in Brooklyn, New York on November 14, 1862. For a time he was editor of Reel Life, house organ of the Mutual Program. New wrote a film scenario for Thanhouser in 1913 and created the stories on which certain 1914 Thanhouser films in The Diplomatic Free Lance series were based. When Lloyd F. Lonergan wrote the actual scenarios for these films, he was “in constant consultation” with New, according to press accounts. Clarence Herbert New died in Brooklyn, New York on January 8, 1933.
Bowers’ own filmography list is left out here: the filmography above lists the same films. Cite as: Bowers, Q. David. Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, “NEW, Clarence Herbert.” thanhouser.org/research/people/clarence-herbert-new/