Ernest Schoedsack
Born in Iowa, Schoedsack ran away from home at twelve and headed for California. By the time he was seventeen, he was working as a cameraman. Schoedsack met Cooper in Vienna in 1918. Later, they decided to record the migration of the Bakhtiari tribe of Persia. After filming Grass, he raised money for the team as a cameraman for the New York Zoo-logical Society's trip.