Filmmaker: Herbert B. Miller

Herbert Miller

Club Affiliation

Amateur Cinema League

Gender:

Male

Awards/Recognition:

National Film Preservation Foundation Grant, 2014
Oregon Historical Society list of titled amateur films

Films:

Grunts and Groans: Screen Adaption of the Man on the Flying Trapeze (1933)

• Video: via Oregon Historical Society (YouTube)

Me and Mine (1939)

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Biographical Notes:

"Born in 1895, Herbert B. Miller was the son of the founder of the Miller Paint Company of Portland, Oregon. He was a member of the Amateur Cinema League, and an enthusiastic home moviemaker. He died in 1948. His son, Herbert G. Miller, appears as a child in many of the films and probably made the single one from the 1950s." Oregon Historical Society.

Bibliographic Resources:

Further information on Herbert B. Miller and his collection can be found at Archives West.