John M. Bauman was a Thanhouser cameraman circa 1915-1917.
John M. Bauman
A Thanhouser Company cinematographer, credited on 5 Thanhouser films, 1 of which you can watch free online.
Watch a film John M. Bauman photographedOpens King Lear (1916)
Biography
From Bowers’ encyclopedia entry. Read the full biography below ↓
Filmography
Films you can watch
Other Thanhouser films
These have no online copy. Each page says what is known about where a print is held.
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. 98 words.
Born in New Milford, Connecticut, John M. Bauman was educated in New Haven in the same state. Early in his career he was a mechanical engineer, after which he went into films as a cameraman for Edison. In 1915 and 1916 he was a cameraman on the Thanhouser staff, and worked in Jacksonville and New Rochelle. He was 5’9” tall, weighed 130 pounds, and had dark hair and green eyes. At the time his home was at 149 High Street, Mount Vernon, New York, not far from New Rochelle.
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, “BAUMAN, John M.” thanhouser.org/research/people/john-m-bauman/