Herbert K. Job furnished film footage of wild birds for the 1915 Thanhouser release in the United States of The Spirit of Audubon and for two films released in 1916 in Great Britain (but possibly not in the United States) by Thanhouser Films, Ltd.: Wild Birds at Home, Ex-President Roosevelt’s Feathered Pets, and Egrets and Herons.
Herbert K. Job
A Thanhouser Company cinematographer, credited on 4 Thanhouser films. None is online, though a print of one survives in an archive.
Biography
From Bowers’ encyclopedia entry. Read the full biography below ↓
Filmography
Thanhouser films
- 1915The Spirit of AudubonNo online copy
- 1916Wild Birds at HomeLost
- 1916Ex-President Roosevelt’s Feathered PetsLost
- 1916Herons and EgretsLost
These have no online copy. Each page says what is known about where a print is held.
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The full biography
From Volume III: Biographies of Q. David Bowers’ Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, reproduced with permission and unchanged. 126 words.
Herbert Keightly Job was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1865. He was a freelance cameraman who specialized in nature photography and who did much work for various Audubon societies. At one time he went on expeditions to Louisiana and Florida with Theodore Roosevelt to study birds. He photographed wild birds for the 1915 Thanhouser release of The Spirit of Audubon. Job died in Delmar, New York, on June 17, 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, “JOB, Herbert K.” thanhouser.org/research/people/herbert-k-job/